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IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
- Record Id:
- 040-003797828
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693966
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119087696.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145983041.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
- Title:
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Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
- Scope & Content:
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A short anonymous treatise (مختصر) in Persian on the construction and operation of the astrolabe, in twenty sections (bābs). The copy is extensively provided with diagrams and tables illustrating the instrument's stages of manufacture.
The text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056 (end of June 1646) and collated 23 of the same month (7 July 1646).
Several folios, some blank, some bearing calligraphic exercises and unfinished diagrams, and pages of astronomical tables and text (ff. 12r-13r) are bound into the volume following the treatise on the astrolabe (ff. 10r-13v).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 1-2):
اما بعد اين مختصر يست در صنعت اسطرلاب شمالي وجنوبي مشتمل بر بيست باب باب اول در مقدمات صناعية
كه معرفت آن در صنعت اسطرلاب ضروريست چون خواهند كه خطي تنصيف كنند چون خط ا ب ...
Ends (f. 9r, lines 15-29):
اينست خلاصه
آنچه مشهور و مستعمل است از
اعمال صنعت اسطرلاب
وبعضى از صناع اعمال
مذکوره را بطریقی مختلفه
باتمام رسانید
و مرجع همه یکی
است اگر بفرض
بدگران بر
طرف شود
اين مختصر
بتطویل
انجامید
پس برین قدر اختصار
كنيم والله الموفق ...
Colophon (f. 9r, lines 29-34):
... تم
النسخة في أواسط
[!] شهر جمادى الأول
سنة ١٠٥٦
بلغ المقابلة بتوفيق الله تعالى
في ثلاثة عشرين من شهر جمادى الأول [!] سنة ١٠٥٦
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003693966
040-003797828 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 1514 : Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe and Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل…
IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r : Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب] - Hierarchy:
- 032-003693966[0001]/040-003797828
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 1514
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Ff. 2v-9r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100145983041.0x000002
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1646
- End Date:
- 1646
- Date Range:
- Mid Jumādá I 1056
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
-
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- Finding Aids:
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Ethé, Hermann, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols (Oxford: 1903-37), vol. 2, no. 2256, 1, pp. 1231-32
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)