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Project / Collection India Office Library Container Reference (shelfmark) IO Islamic 1514 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
Scope & Content:: A short anonymous treatise (مختصر) in Persian on the construction and operation of the astrolabe, in twenty sections (bābs). The copy is extensively provided with diagrams and tables illustrating the instrument's stages of manufacture. The text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056 (end of ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Mid Jumādá I 1056
Extent:: Ff. 2v-9r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514, ff 14v-32v
Title:: Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:: Astrological treatise also known as Kitāb al-mudkhal fī ṣināʿat aḥkām al-nujūm (كتاب المدخل في صناعة أحكام النجوم) and Mujmal al-uṣūl fī aḥkām al-nujūm (مجمل الأصول في أحكام النجوم) in four chapters (مقالات), composed in the late 10th century by Kiyā Abū al-Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al-J...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:: Ff. 14v-32v

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