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IO Islamic 4083
- Record Id:
- 032-004341893
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004341893
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163235680.0x000038
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 4083
- Title:
- Four treatises on spheres and astrology (& 1 Arabic)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Irvine Collection
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- 032-004341893
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-004341893
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (6 ff.,11 ff.,6 ff.,39 ff.)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1525
- End Date:
- 1802
- Date Range:
- 1525-1802
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
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- Names:
- Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, 1203?-1283,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118779487,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/74086465 - Subjects:
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Astronomy--India--History
Science India History - TEI:
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Irvine Collection
IO Islamic 4083
Four treatises on spheres and astrology (& 1 Arabic)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection of five treatises on spheres (kurah) and astronomy; the first (part a) is an unidentified scientific treatise in Arabic (ff. 1v-10v); the remaining four (parts b-e) are in Persian; part e is early and illustratedLanguage(s): Persian
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperHand(s)
History
Origin: 1525-1802 16th-19th centuries CE ; Indiab
Contents
1. ff. 11v-16vTreatise describing itself as a mukhtaṣar on the art of spherical orbs (celestial and terrestrial) or ṣanʿat-i kurah in connection with the use of astrolabes
Work divided into several faṣl
No diagrams or tables
Colophon date may not be reliable (f. 16v): completed by Murād Gul Bayg (sic) the munajjim, on Friday, 10 Jum. II 1217/8 October 1802
Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 6 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 162 mm.History
Origin: 1802-10-08 Friday, 10 Jum. II 1217 AH; 8 October 1802 CE ; Indiac
Contents
2. ff. 17v-27vTreatise describing itself as a mukhtaṣar on the art of spherical orbs (celestial and terrestrial) or ṣanʿat-i kurah in connection with the use of astrolabes
Work divided into several bāb
No diagrams or tables
Colophon date may not be reliable (f. 27v): completed by Mirzā Gul Nīk the munajjim ibn Mirzā Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn the munajjim, nabīrah (son’s son) of Mirzā ʿAlī Riyāz̤ī (or Mirzā ʿAlī the mathematician), on Wednesday, 11 Jum. II 1217/9 October 1802
Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 11 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 162 mm.History
Origin: 1802-10-09 Wednesday, 11 Jum. II 1217 AH; 9 October 1802 CE ; Indiad
Contents
3. ff. 28v-40rTreatise on the art of spherical orbs (celestial and terrestrial) or ṣanʿat-i kurah in connection with the use of astrolabes
Work divided into several faṣl (22 in total)
Diagrams and tables
Colophon date may not be reliable (f. 40r): completed by Mirzā Gul Nīk the munajjim ibn Mirzā Zayn (written Badīn) al-ʿĀbidīn the munajjim, nabīrah (son’s son) of Mirzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Riyāz̤ī (or Mirzā Muḥammad ʿAlī the mathematician), on Saturday, 17 (hafdahum written as hamdahum) Jum. II 1217/15 October 1802
Folios 41-3 left blank
Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 6 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 162 mm.History
Origin: 1802-10-15 Saturday, 17 Jum. II 1217 AH; 15 October 1802 CE ; Indiae
Contents
4. ff. 44r-83vFragment from a larger illustrated manuscript of the Persian translation of Zakarīyā Qazvīnī’s cosmological encyclopaedia, ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt va gharāʾib al-mawjūdāt
Translator not identified
Preface omitted in part
Folios disordered
Defective at end with text expunged, perhaps to fake a supposedly erased colophon. However, a surviving catchword indicates the original text followed onto subsequent folios that are at present missing
Early scribal nastaʿliq on fine, thin paper, within gilt ruled jadāval
The illustrations (28 in total), added at the time or a little after the text’s completion, executed in the early- to mid-sixteenth-century North Indian Sultanate, early Timurid or Mughal provincial, or early Deccani Sultanate style; the plain blue ground may have been added later
Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 39 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 162 mm.History
Origin: 1525-1575 1525 - 1575 CE ; IndiaAdditional Information
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