Author
Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436.
Publication Date
1427
Subject
Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah., Astronomy--Early works to 1800., Astronomy., Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221?.
Type
Document
Language
ara,fas
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
65 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 168 x 117 (113 x 68) mm bound to 169 x 125 mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
818192814
Record ID
9948262793503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1427
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger., Collation: Paper, i + 65 + i; 1⁸ (first leaf flyleaf) 2⁸( -1) 3-8⁸ 9⁴ (last leaf flyleaf); no foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso., Layout: Written in 21 long lines., Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script in black ink; pointed., Decoration: 23 astronomical diagrams in red and black ink; headings and overlinings in red., Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard, gilt-tooled mostly rubbed, central 6-pointed star in a circle with dots in and around the star centered between two sets of rectangles, double frame; inside covers have block-stamped pattern., Origin: Written in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, dated A.H. 830 (end of Ramadan; July 1427) (f. 64v-65r). | Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative. | Arabic, with some Persian. | Formerly owned by Ḥaydar ibn Shāhī Hamdānī (ownership inscription and stamp without date, f. 65r, same stamp on f. 1r)., Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Sample Text
Ms. codex., Commentary on the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah, written in the 12th century by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī. Numerous marginal annotations by the copyist.
Biyografi/Tarihçe
Second director of the observatory established in Samarqand in 1420 under the patronage of governor and astronomer Ulugh Beg.
Atıf Şekli
UPenn LJS 408.
Atıf Yapılan
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 56 (LJS 408).
Tür
Manuscripts, Arabic., Manuscripts, 15th century., Manuscripts, Renaissance., codices (bound manuscripts), annotations, commentaries, diagrams, Stamps (Provenance), Early works.