Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Paper, i + 65 + i; 18 (first leaf flyleaf) 28( -1) 3-88 94 (last leaf flyleaf); no foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso. Layout: Written in 21 long lines. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script in black ink; pointed. Decoration: 23 astronomical diagrams in red and black ink; headings and overlinings in red. Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard, gilt-tooled mostly rubbed, central 6-pointed star in a circle with dots in and around the star centered between two sets of rectangles, double frame; inside covers have block-stamped pattern. Origin: Written in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, dated A.H. 830 (end of Ramadan; July 1427) (f. 64v-65r). Formerly owned by Ḥaydar ibn Shāhī Hamdānī (ownership inscription and stamp without date, f. 65r, same stamp on f. 1r). Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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