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Or 15656
- Record Id:
- 032-004343457
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004343457
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163239456.0x000097
- LARK:
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 15656
- Title:
- Astrological treatise
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Oriental Manuscripts
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- 032-004343457
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004343457
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 90 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1503
- End Date:
- 1503
- Date Range:
- 1503
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
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- Names:
- Aḥmad ibn Faz̤l Allāh al-Shīrāzī
Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d 1505?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083626201,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90770167
Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d 1505?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083626201,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90770167
Kāšifī, Ḥusain Wāʿiẓ, Iranian writer, 1461-1504,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083626201,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90770167
‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Mashhadī al-Haravī - TEI:
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Oriental Manuscripts
Or 15656
Astrological treatise
Contents
1 copy of Lavā’iḥ al-qamar by Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5
Title: Lavā’iḥ al-qamarTitle: لوائح القمرAn astrological treatise, concerning auspicious hours, days and months according to the positions of the moon by Ḥusayn Vā‘iẓ Kāshifī (d. 910/1504-5).
The present manuscript was produced during the author’s lifetime and probably in his hometown of Herat, and strengthens the case for using the alternative title of the work, Ikhtiyārāt-i nujūm.
The work contains a number of tables.
Colophon on title page, f. 1r, naming the work as Ikhtiyārāt al-nujūm and the author as Ustāz̲unā va Shaykhunā al-Ḥakīm Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Bayhaqī al-Kashifī al-Haravī. Copied in Muḥarram 909/June-July 1503 by ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Mashhadī al-Haravī.
Other contents: f. 1r, inscription giving the title as Ikhtiyārāt al-nujūm; later small inscription: Ikhtiyārāt-i nujūm va Risālah dar ma‘rifat-i istikhrāj-i taqvīm; ownership inscription of Aḥmad ibn Faz̤l Allāh al-Shīrāzī, 1000/1591-2.
Title supplied.
Language(s): PersianFiliation:Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 90 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 241 × 146 mm.Hand(s)
Naskhī. Scribe: ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Mashhadī al-Haravī
Decoration
Headings, tables and quotations in red.
Additions:Binding
Binding: brown leather over boards; red edging and spine.
History
Origin: 1503 Muḥarram 909 AH; 1503 CE ; Herat(?)Provenance and Acquisition
Aḥmad ibn Faz̤l Allāh al-Shīrāzī, inscription dated 1000/1591-2.
2000-10-11
Acquired from Bonhams sale 11 October 2000, Lot 62.
Record Sources
Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.Availability
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