Item Summary

First volume of an unidentified treatise on astronomy; the author is mentioned on leaf 1b.

Descriptive Information

Title
شبهات المنجمين.
Transliterated Title
Shubuhāt al-munajjimīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 439L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcm039kj493
Language
Persian
Format
Manuscript
Extent
135 leaves : paper ; 194 x 144 (144 x 90) mm bound to 189 x 143 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 439
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Label on upper cover: "274 KE". Table of contents (fol. 1a). Inscription (fol. 135b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 135 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 18 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms with a bird) ; MS in good condition, folios 1-2 slightly damaged.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed by Muḥammad Shafīʻ ibn Abū Ṭālib al-Mawsūr? al-Kharrāzī (fol. 135a).
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) limp binding in dark brown leather. Light brown leather doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Astronomy, Arab
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Leather doublures

Physical Characteristics

File Count
278

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6cc17452-1064-4352-b3bc-97793c37c511/manifest