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Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.
Support: paper; Extent: i, 86, i leaves : 252 x 171 (190 x 124) mm bound to 252 x 178 mm; Foliation: Paper, i + 87 + i; [1-87]; some irregular foliation in ink, upper right verso.
Written in 21-24 long lines.
Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Copy compled in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228) (f. 66r, 86v).
13th-century leather, blind-stamped, with replacement flap.
Arabic
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.
Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.
Copy compled in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228) (f. 66r, 86v).
Arabic
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd.
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.
Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.
Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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).
Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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