Item Summary

Commentary on the Almagest, the classical 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح كتاب مجسطي بطلميوس قلوذى يونانى / عبد العلي برجندي.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Kitāb Majisṭī Baṭlamyūs Qulūdhī Yūnānī / ʻAbd al-ʻAlī Birjandī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 870q
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/c534fs61g
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
63 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 308 x 214 (225 x 140) mm bound to 316 x 220 mm.
Source Acquisition
Purchase. AM 2017-68.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from later note on folio 1a.
Occasional marginal note. Astronomical notes on folio 1a. Contains numerous diagrams and a table. Incomplete at end.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 63 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 37 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; text commented on overlined in red ; watermarks (endpaper: coat-of-arms with three stars and a crown over the roman-alphabet letters "GM"; text: roman-alphabet text beginning "B" and "Mle A[?]") ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقى واعتمادى الحمد لله الذى جعلنا من المتفكرين في خلف السموات والارض ... وبعد فيقول المتوسل الى الله تعالى بنبى الثقليم العبد المذنب عبد العلى بن محمد بن الحسين وفقه الله تع
Ending: قوله من شهر ثانى اى سنة المذكوره في الرصل الاول
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold- and blind-tooled frame on covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ptolemy active 2nd century—Almagest
Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800
Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
scientific illustrations (images)
tables (documents)
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
132

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7e19a71b-ae51-4c4f-b855-596285532b3a/manifest