Author
Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad | قوشجى، على بن محمد
Author Original
قوشجى، على بن محمد
Publication Date
1481].
Publication Place
-
University of Michigan
Subject
Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449. Zīj-i jadīd-i Sultānī. | Manuscripts, Persian | Astronomy, Arab Tables. | more | less
Type
kitap
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
271
Physical Dimensions
271 leaves : paper ; 180 x 135 (117 x 77 ; 123 x 61) mm.
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Record ID
006818233
Library Location
University of Michigan
Date
1481].
Notes
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 827 | Origin: As appears in colophon on p.558, transcription of the bulk of the manuscript (from p.185 to close excluding replacement leaves) completed in Tabrīz, 1 Ṣafar 886 [ca. 1 April 1481]. Opening of the manuscript (through p.184) appears to have been copied separately, though likely around the same time (i.e. late 15th or early 16th century). | Accompanying materials: Several inserts carrying diagrams and glosses, also paginated (see pp.131-2, 209-10, 251-2, 253-4, 255-6, 263-4, 503-4, 505-6, 525-26). | Former shelfmark: "٤٢٧" from label on upper cover. | Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled rule-border ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in dark blue and cream, quite good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with staining, lifting and losses of leather at flap, etc. ; repair to fore edge flap in floral-printed textile. | Support: non-European laid paper of at least three types ; opening through p.184 on type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, typically quite diffuse), chains lines only sporadically visible, well-sized and burnished to glossy ; bulk of manuscript in a similar type with 7 laid lines per cm. (again quite diffuse), chain lines visible as short lengths or occasional pairs (spaced 13 mm. apart, see p.220), darker in color, well-sized and burnished to glossy ; some replacements on still a different type (see bifolia carrying pp.283-70, 295-302, 343-48) ; other replacements, added leaves carrying table of contents at opening, and many inserts on European laid paper. | Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; numerous tables and line diagrams in red. | Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; at least three elegant hands ; text of replacement leaves in naskh. | Layout: Written in 17, 16 and 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident). | Collation: I (2), IV+1 (11), 8 V(91), II (95), 4 IV(127), III (133), IV-4+4 (141), II (145), V (155), IV (163), III (169), 2 IV(185), III (191), 8 IV(255), IV+2 (265), III (271) ; main section mainly quaternions ; opening section chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and skips two pages between pp.345-6). | Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه الرساله فى دار السلطنه تبريز فى غره صفر سنه ۸۸۶" | Explicit: "بل وحى و الهام و كيفيت وضع جداويل تر طاهر ست والله اعلم بحقايق الاشيار والحمد لوليه والشكر على نعمائه والصلوه والسلام على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه وعترته اجمعين" | Incipit: "متن مقالت اول در معرفت تواريخ وان مشتمل است بر مقدمه وهفت باب مقدمه در معرفت معنى تاريخ وسال وماه واجزاء آن جون از سمه اجرام سماوى ظاهر تر افتاب وماهست ..." | Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.5). | Ms. composite codex. | Fine, early composite copy of the commentary by the astronomer and mathematician ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Qushjī [Ali Kuşcu] (d.1474) on the Zīj-i Gurkānī, the astronomical handbook compiled at Samarqand under the amīr Ulugh Beg (d.1449), also its principal author. Ali Kuşcu himself took part in the compilation of the Zīj as director of the observatory. Table of contents at opening (pp.2-4). | more | less
