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IO Islamic 1514
- Record Id:
- 032-003693966
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693966
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106886852.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142222017.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1514
- Title:
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Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe
and
Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم
Kūshyār كوشيار
- Scope & Content:
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Composite volume containing two texts on the manufacture of the astrolabe and on astrology.
The first text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056/end of June 1646, while the second was completed on 18 Shawwāl 1061/4 October 1651 by the scribe Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim, 'the astronomer' (غياث الدين محمد بن حسن بيك منجم, see colophon, f. 32v, line 9 transcribed below), whose ownership stamp and inscription is also found on f. 14r.
The tables, graphs, and calligraphic exercises found on ff. 11-13 are inserted into the volume.
Contents:
- (1) Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب] (ff. 2v-9r);
- (2) Kūshyār ibn Labbān (كوشيار بن لبان), Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm (كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم; ff. 14v-32v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003693966
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r : Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
IO Islamic 1514, ff 14v-32v : Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجومKūshyār كوشيار
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iii+1+i+31+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100106886852.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1646
- End Date:
- 1651
- Date Range:
- Jumādá I 1056-18 Shawwāl 1061
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper with wove paper used for repairs and inserts.
Dimensions: 190 x 330 leaf [first text: 275 x 105 written; second text: 270 x 130 written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; India Office Library foliation in pencil (cancelled); Eastern Arabic foliation on verso head margins (ff. 2v-32v excluding inserts, ff. 23 and 26).
Ruling: Misṭarah; 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nastaʿlīq in different hands; the scribe of the second text is Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim, 'the astronomer' ( غياث الدين محمد بن حسن بيك منجم, see colophon, f. 32v, line 9)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: Plain light brown leather binding
Condition: Paper edges damaged and heavily restored throughout; ff. 23 and 26 are inserted; some stains and smudges throughout
Marginalia: Intermittent marginal notes and corrections. Some notes in pencil (e.g., f. 16v)
Seals: ff. 2r, 14r and 32v
- Custodial History:
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- East India Company Library, its seal (f. 2r);
- ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥasanʿalī, (عبد الله ابن حسنعلي): his inscription and seal with date 1172/1758-59 (f. 14r);
- Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim (غياث الدين محمد بن حسن بيك منجم): his inscription and seal (f. 14r) and scribal inscription (f. 32v, line 9).
- Source of Acquisition:
- From the library at Seringapatam (Srirangapatna) of Tīpū Sulṭān (ٹیپو سلطان), Nawwāb Fatḥ ‘Alī Khān (نواب فتح علي خان) of Mysore (reg. 1782-99), transferred to Fort William College, Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1799, then deposited at the India Office in 1806 and 1937
- Finding Aids:
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Ethé, Hermann, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (vol. 2. revised and completed by Edward Edwards) (Oxford: 1903-37), No. 2256, pp. 1231-32
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)