Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 3

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DS ID:

DS6713

Shelfmark:

MS Or 3

Title:

Sharḥ-i Zīj-i Sulṭānī

Author:

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

ʿAbd-al-ʿAlī Ibn-Muḥammad al Birǧandī WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1686.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 183 leaves : paper ; 230 x 180 (180 x 115) mm, bound to 240 x 185 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from colophon (f. 182r).
Layout: Written in 23 lines per page.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink, pointed.
Decoration: Diagrams in red; overlining and rubrications in red.
Origin: Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1097 AH (1686 CE) (f. 182r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 3.
Persian customs stamps solar dated 1312 (1933 CE) (f. [0]r, 182v); note in black ink f. 182v.
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (signature in pencil, f. 182v).

Keyword:

commentaries

Tables

blind-tooled (decoration)

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

diagrams

Manuscripts, Persian

Zij-i jadid-i Sultani (Ulugh Beg)

New York (State)--New York

Astronomy, Arab

Astronomy, Arab--Tables

Islamic calendar

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15311687

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_15311687_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library