Item Summary

An abridgment of Uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd, an astronomical work by Ulugh Bey ibn Shāh Rukh ibn Tīmūr 796-852 [1393/4-1448/9].

Descriptive Information

Title
در النظيم.
Transliterated Title
Durr al-naẓīm.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 511H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6108vp49w
Publisher
[between 1600 and 1799?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
19 leaves : paper, charts ; 230 x 165 (175 x 104) mm bound to 229 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression of a ṭughrā (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 995.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 197/8.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5757.
Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, II, 277.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1140.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
A few marginal notes. Work contains a number of charts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 18 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents and roman-alphabet letters "GF") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied by Aḥmad al-Badawī al-[...] al-Shāfiʻī al-Azʹharī (fol. 19b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله واهب المنن من فضله العميم خالق الانسان في احسن تقويم ... وبعد فلما رايت الهمم عن ادراك معاني الحقايق الفلكية ...
Colophon: تم وکمل والحمد لله رب العالمين م على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى الله احمد البدوي البتنوني الشافعي الازهري عفي عنه
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and paper with block-stamped floral design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
tables (documents)
tuǧras
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
52

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b7bd9fca-c366-4b4b-8e8d-b200c7235726/manifest