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Metadata

DS ID:

DS658

Shelfmark:

LJS 412

Title:

Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy

Astronomical texts

Place:

Cairo

TGN

Date:

A.H. 950 (1543)

sixteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Arabic

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 18 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 226 x 149 (172 x 90) mm bound to 228 x 154 mm

Former Owner(s):

Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Collective title supplied by cataloger; titles of individual works from caption titles.
Collation: Paper, 18; 118; no foliation marked on leaves.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; no catchwords.
Script: Written in naskh influenced by nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, with titles in a larger naskh in red and green ink; pointed.
Decoration: 9 astronomical diagrams (f. 14v, 15r, 16r-18v) in red and black ink; titles in green ink; significant words or phrases in red or green ink.
Binding: Marbled paper in bright yellow, blue, pink, and green with title and date in black ink on front cover; bound as a pamphlet.
Origin: Written in Cairo in A.H. Ṣafar 950 (May-June 1543) by ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim (f. 1r, 10v, 18v, upper cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 1 June 1987, lot 138.
Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999, lot N.3.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Early works

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Sixteenth century

diagrams

treatises

Manuscripts, Arabic

Astronomical instruments

Astronomy, Arab

Astrolabes