Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 325

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DS ID:

DS6595

Shelfmark:

MS Or 325

Title:

Risālah dar hayʼat / رساله در هيئت

Risālah fī al-hayʼah

Author:

Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475 / قوشجي، علي بن محمد، -1474 أو 1475

Ali Qushji WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Singh, Rājah Rāī Harbans / سنکه، راجه راى هربنس

Rājah Rāī Harbans Singh WIKIDATA

Place:

India?

India TGN

Date:

1792.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 66 foliated leaves : paper, illustrations ; 220 x 150 (165 x 100) mm, bound to 230 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Decoration: Chapter headings and diagrams in red ink.
Kabīkaj invocation (f. 66v).
Layout: 11 long lines.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: Copy completed in 1206 AH by Rājah Rāī Harbans Singh (f. 66v).
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Shelfmark: MS Or 325.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).

Keyword:

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

Astronomy, Arab

Early works

Manuscripts, Persian

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13806439

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14566259_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library