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Language Persian Subject Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 23569, ff 1v-46r

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Title:
Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah رسالة در علم هيئة Qūshjī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad قوشجي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Popular textbook of astronomy written in Samarqand in 1458 by Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī (أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي; d. 1474). The text contains 22 diagrams in red and black ink (ff. 2r, 2v, 3r, 5r, 11r, 14r, 15v, 17r, 21v, 23r, 26v, 32v, 33r, 34r, 34v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1646-47
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Ff. 1v-46r

2. Add MS 23569, ff 56v-77r

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Title:
Risālah sī faṣl رساله سي فصل Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on practical astronomy (تقويم) divided into thirty sections (سي فصل) composed in 658/1260 (see Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, p. 233) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The full title of the work is Sī faṣl dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm (سي فصل در معرفت تقويم). The text ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1055
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Ff. 56v-77r

3. Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r

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Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r
Title:
Bīst bāb dar ma‘rifat asṭurlāb بيست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the use of the astrolabe in twenty chapters (بيست باب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). This copy was completed on 29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057/26 December 1647 (see colophon, f. 103r, lines 9-11, transcribed below). Begins (f. 78v, lines 4-6): اين مختصر يست در معرفت...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057
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Ff. 78v-103r

4. Add MS 23570, ff 86v-117r

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Title:
Short mathematical texts, notes and diagrams in Arabic and Persian
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Notable contents include: Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) edition of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (الأصول) (ff. 86v-88r); Text by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1605-1610
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Ff. 86v-117r