Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 11

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DS ID:

DS6598

Shelfmark:

MS Or 11

Title:

Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl

Author:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 / طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi WIKIDATA

Date:

16--?-17--?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv, 31 foliated leaves : paper, illustrations ; 200 x 112 (140 x 65) mm, bound to 205 x 120 mm

Former Owner(s):

Qummī, Taqī ibn ʻAlī / قمى، تقى بن على،

Taqī ibn ʻAlī al-Qummī WIKIDATA

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
Layout: Chiefly written in 17-19 long; tables.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Numerous astronomical tables, chiefly in red ink; geometrical figures.
Origin: The work is dated 775 AH, but it is was likely produced later than that, perhaps in the 17th or 18th century.
Shelfmark: MS Or 11.
Stamp with name ʻĀlamgīr? Shāh Khān [...]bādī (f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Taqī ibn ʻAlī al-Qummī (note and stamp with same name dated 1271 AH (1854 or 1855 CE), f. 1r).
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (signature, third flyleaf recto at front of book and third flyleaf verso at back of book).

Keyword:

History

codices (bound manuscripts)

Annotations

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

Stamps

Astrology, Arab

Manuscripts, Persian

Islamic calendar

Astronomy

Islamic countries

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642084

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642084_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library