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Add MS 23569

Record Id:
032-002899480
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032-002899480
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ark:/81055/vdc_100024386010.0x000001
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ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23569
Title:

Five treatises on astronomy and mathematics in Persian and Arabic

Scope & Content:

A collection of five astronomical and mathematical treatises in Persian and Arabic. Folios 77v and 78r have been left blank.

Contents:

  • (1) al-Qūshjī (القوشجي), Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah (رسالة در علم هيئة; ff. 1v-46r)
  • (2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 46v-56v);
  • (3) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي), Risālah sī faṣl (رساله سي فصل; ff. 56v-77r);
  • (4) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي), Bīst bāb dar ma‘rifat asṭurlāb (بيست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب; ff. 78v-103r);
  • (5) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (خلاصة الحساب; ff. 103v-135v).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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Add MS 23569, ff 1v-46r : Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah رسالة در علم هيئةQūshjī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad قوشجي، علي…
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Add MS 23569, ff 56v-77r : Risālah sī faṣl رساله سي فصل Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي،…
Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r : Bīst bāb dar ma‘rifat asṭurlāb بيست باب در معرفت اسطرلابṬūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn…
Add MS 23569, ff 103v-135v : Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي،…

 

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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+135+v

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Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1646
End Date:
1647
Date Range:
1055-1057
Calendar:
Hijri qamari
Era:
AH
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper; blue paper ff. 94-101

Dimensions: 195 x 90 mm leaf [ff. 1v-79r 140 x 45 mm written; ff. 79v-135v 140 x 50 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubrications and some diagrams and overlinings in red

Decoration: Illuminated opening ff. 1v-2r; illuminated ‘unwāns ff. 46v and 56v; titles in gold ink ff. 78v and 103v

Binding: red leather binding mixing European and Islamic styles; blind-tooled medallion and pendants

Condition: Very good; some margins repaired (ff. 94-113); lower corner torn from f. 110

Marginalia: Occasional notes and corrections; many on ff. 46v-59v and 104r-105r

Seals: f. 1r

Custodial History:
  • Owner's seal and inscription erased (f. 1r);
  • Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43): his seal, undated, with legend عبده تيلر (f. 1r);
  • Ibn Muḥammad Kāẓim (?) al-Naṣīr ibn al-Ṭūsī (?) Muḥammad Ismā‘īl (ابن محمد كاظم [؟] النصير بن الطوسي [؟] محمد إسماعيل): his inscription, undated, erased and semi-legible seal (f. 1r);
  • Sanad (?) Farā’ṣī (?) al-Ḥusaynī (سند [؟] فرائصي [؟] الحسيني): his seal, dated 1142/1729-30, with inscription عبده سند (؟) فرائصي (؟) الحسيني المتوكل على الغني الله (f. 1r).
Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Mrs Taylor, widow of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43), 14 April 1860

Finding Aids:

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 1345, pp. 622

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