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Astrological treatise with numerous astronomical and calendarial tables. Incomplete at beginning and end.
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Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Manuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript digitizations here are a fraction of the full Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections, housed in Special Collections in Princeton's Firestone Library. Efforts are ongoing to make the manuscripts of these collections more accessible through conservation, catalog record updates, and digitization.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 440Lq
- Language
- Persian
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Item Summary
Astrological treatise with numerous astronomical and calendarial tables. Incomplete at beginning and end.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [Persian treatise on astrology].
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 440Lq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0g354t535
- Language
- Persian
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 94 leaves : paper ; 302 x 224 (240 x 155) mm bound to 304 x 231 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. 440
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Inscription (fol. [i]b).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 94 + ii (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 24 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair to poor condition; stained, worm damage affecting text.
- Origin: Undated.
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and red and purple marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 206
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/adba0d18-59de-4ccd-977c-cc427c1502ad/manifest