Author
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner., Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Publication Date
1507
Subject
Geography., Islamic astrology., Islamic countries., Islamic astrology--Early works to 1800., Islamic countries--Geography.
Type
Document
Language
Persian
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
7 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 216 x 137 (145 x 109) mm bound to 220 x 144 mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
792957720
Record ID
9948287273503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1507
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Foliation: Paper, 7; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto., Layout: Textblock border-ruled in gold with vertical margins extended to upper edge of the page., Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, with headings in naskh script., Decoration: 6 colored diagrams (eastern half of a double-page world map, f. 1r; structure and arrangement of seven climatic zones, f. 2v; geographical relationship of various cities to Mecca, f. 3r; rainbow predictions, f. 4v; setting and rising of the moon, f. 5r; half of a double-page horoscope diagram, f. 7v) and 8 decorated tables (ikhtiyārāt for the days of the solar month, f. 1v-2r; ikhtiyārāt for the lunar mansions, f. 3v-4r; ikhtiyārāt for the moon in one of the zodiacal signs, f. 5v-6r); marginal ruling in gold; significant words or numbers in red or green ink., Binding: 19th-century light brown leather with faded, gold-tooled frame., Origin: Written in the Timurid Empire in eastern Persia, now Iran, ca. 1507 (based on date of horoscope diagram, f. 7v). | Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative. | Persian. | Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Sample Text
Tables used in an astrological technique for determining auspicious times for carrying out various activities. Also includes geographical illustrations and diagrams and half of a horoscope diagram for a location in northern Afghanistan dated Friday, 27 Shawwāl 912 (12 March 1507).
Atıf Şekli
UPenn LJS 434.
Atıf Yapılan
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 78 (LJS 434).
Tür
Manuscripts, Persian., Manuscripts, 16th century., Manuscripts, Renaissance., codices (bound manuscripts), almanacs, diagrams, tables (documents), world maps
