Binding: Light brown leather over pasteboard with marbled paper sides. Ownership stamps and inscriptions (f. 1r). Ms. codex. Origin: First text dated 11 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 852 A.H. (June 1448 CE) (f. 95r); the second work is undated. Title from introduction (f. 1v). Decoration: 7 astronomical diagrams (f. 97r-101r) in red and black ink; 2 of another type of diagram in red and black ink (f. 82r, 83r); tables in red and black ink (f. 83v-84v, 101v-103r); rubrications and overlining in red. Layout: Written in 15 (f. 1v-95r) and 19-20 (f. 96v-100v) long lines. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, by at least 2 hands (f. 1v-95r, 96v-103r). Foliation: Paper, i + 103 + i; 1-95, [96-103], later foliation in ink, upper left recto, end of manuscript (f. 96-103) not foliated. Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, 1790? (stamp, f. 1r). Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004. Formerly owned by Muḥammad Dhará, the timekeeper at the mosque of Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān (note in ink, f. 1r). Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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