Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 298

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6585

Shelfmark:

MS Or 298

Title:

Risālah dar hayʼat. [Sharḥ-i Risālah dar hayʼat

Place:

Turkey?

Turkey TGN

Date:

17--?-18--?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (85 foliated leaves) : paper, illustrations

Former Owner(s):

Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936

George Arthur Plimpton WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title of first work from introduction to second work (f. [22v]) and title from second work from added title in later hand (f. [1r]).
Layout: 27 lines with some marginalia. Opening page pricked and ruled in dry point.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications in red. Astronomical diagrams in red and black.
Origin: Item is undated. Likely copied in the 18th or 19th century.
Shelfmark: MS Or 298.
Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).

Keyword:

full covers

codices (bound manuscripts)

compilation manuscripts

manuscripts (documents)

diagrams

envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, Persian

Astronomy, Arab

Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475. Risālah fī al-hayʼah

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14294922

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14294922_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library