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Metadata

DS ID:

DS715

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 478

Title:

Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb / كتاب في استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الاسطرلاب

Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb

Author:

Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048 / بيروني، محمد بن احمد، 973?-1048

Al-Biruni

WIKIDATA

Date:

A.H. 625 (1228)

thirteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Arabic

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, color illustrations

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 86, i leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 252 x 171 (190 x 124) mm bound to 252 x 178 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i + 87 + i; [1-87]; some irregular foliation in ink, upper right verso.
Layout: Written in 21-24 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
Decoration: Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.
Binding: 13th-century leather, blind-stamped, with replacement flap.
Origin: Copy compled in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228) (f. 66r, 86v).
Paper: Laid paper chain lines occasionally visible in sets of two.
Given as a pious endowment (waqf) in 1292 A.H. (note in Persian in ink, f. 1r); several other notes and stamps (f. 1r, 75r), one dated 1120 A.H. (f. 86v).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 2006.
Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Thirteenth century

diagrams

Annotations

treatises

Stamps

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Arabic

Astronomical instruments

Early works