Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 461

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DS ID:

DS6657

Shelfmark:

MS Or 461

Title:

Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb-i usṭurlāb

Author:

Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century / برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين، active 16th century

ʿAbd-al-ʿAlī Ibn-Muḥammad al Birǧandī WIKIDATA

Date:

17--?-1854

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 127 foliated leaves, 4 unfoliated leaves : paper ; 185 x 125 (130 x 80) mm, bound to 187 x 130 mm

Former Owner(s):

Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl / ابو الحسن دلال،

Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl WIKIDATA

Schaefler, Sam

Sam Schaefler WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; other title from bookplate first flyleaf recto.
Layout: 19 long lines.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red; diagrams and tables in red and black.
Origin: The copy is undated, but a note places it in Iṣfahān in the month of Rajab 1270 A.H. (f. 1r). It was likely copied in the 18th or 19th century.
Shelfmark: MS Or 461.
Bookplate with title, author, and number 58 pasted onto front flyleaf recto.
Formerly owned by Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl (?) (note dated 1270 A.H., f. 1r).
Gift of Sam Schaefler (library bookplate inside front cover).

Keyword:

blind-tooled (decoration)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Annotations

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

diagrams

Islamic Empire

Astrolabes

Manuscripts, Persian

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14677485

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14677485_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library