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Add MS 23397
- Record Id:
- 032-002788417
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002788417
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023444610.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023935874.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23397
- Title:
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Three astronomical commentaries
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of three astronomical commentaries from the 14th and 15th centuries.
A bibliographical note in English appears on f. 1r, and ff. 2r-3r contain astronomical notes and diagrams.
A number of related notes on scraps of paper have been bound into the volume.
Contents:
(1) al-Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad (الجرجاني، علي بن محمد), Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في الهيئة) (ff. 4v-52r);
(2) al-Turkmānī, Kamāl al-Dīn (التركماني، كمال الدين), Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في الهيئة) (ff. 53v-109r);
(3) al-Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad (النيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد), Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah (توضيح التذكرة الناصرية) (ff. 110v-364v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002788417
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- Add MS 23397, ff 4v-52r : Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئةJurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad…
Add MS 23397, ff 53v-109r : Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئةTurkmānī, Kamāl al-Dīn…
Add MS 23397, ff 110v-364v : Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصريةNīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+364+iii
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1420
- End Date:
- 1425
- Date Range:
- 822-828
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 215 x 125 mm leaf [157 x 85 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 27 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nasta‘līq
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: Mandorla of blue and gold ink containing inscription in gold (erased) on red field (f. 4r); opening illuminated in blue and gold (ff. 4v-5r);
Binding: Red leather binding with blind tooled medallion and pendants, and two borders of two fillets each, containing stars
Condition: Minor waterstains to upper outer corner, some foxing
Marginalia: Many by various hands
Seals: ff. 4r and 110r.
- Custodial History:
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- Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43): his seal, undated, with legend عبده تيلر (ff. 4r and 110r);
- Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq al-Ilahī al-Ardabīlī (حسين بن عبد الحق الإلهي الأردبيلي): his inscription and seal, undated (f. 4r);
- Aḥmad ibn Isma‘īl (أحمد ابن إسمعيل): his inscription and seal, undated, with legend (Qur’ān 61:6) مبشرًا برسول يأتي من بعدي اسمه أحمد (f. 4r);
- Muḥammad ‘Alī ibn Maḥmūd al-Tabrīzī (محمد علي بن محمود التبريزي): his inscription, undated (ff. 4r, 54r, 110r);
- Ḥusayn Khādim Bāshá (حسين خادم باشى): his inscription and seal, undated and semi-legible (f. 4r);
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mrs Taylor, widow of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43), 14 April 1860
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 1342, p. 621
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)