Author
Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, -1328 or 1329, author Author info »
Author Original
Bakhsh, Mir Karim, scribe
Subject
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Astronomy > Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 volume ([316] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 32 x 26 cm.
Library
The Cornell University Library
Record ID
15771850
Library Location
Cornell University Library
Notes
Title taken from first page of manuscript.
Sample Text
Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan Nīsābūrī's commentary (or "sharh") on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's "Tadhkirah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah," a memoir on the science of astronomy. The colophon states that this manuscript was copied by Mir Karim Bakhsh in Dhu al-Hijja 841 AH (summer 1438 AD), followed by a note in a different hand dated 1309 AH (1891 AD). Arabic bound manuscript on paper with emphases written in red. Illustrated throughout with astronomical diagrams and includes a colored map of the Arabic world centering on the Arabian Peninsula, in which the Nile River is represented as a broad vertical blue shaft.
Üretildi
Azerbaijan? ; 1438.
