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Project / Collection India Office Library Subject Astronomical instruments Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r

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

2. IO Islamic 4419

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4419
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين and Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi رسالة مختصرة شاملة كيفية إنشاء الجدول واستخراج أعماله
Scope & Content:
Two treatises on the construction and use of astronomical instruments. The manuscript was copied at Hyderabad Deccan in 1066/1656 for Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. 1083/1672-3), later known by the honorific title Diyānat Khān (ديانت خان,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+106+ii

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