Descriptive Information

Title

هذا کتاب نجوم بطلمىوس ; رساله معىنيه در علم هيئت.

Transliterated Title

[Hāz̲ā Kitāb-i Nujūm-i Baṭlamyūs] ; Risālah-i Muʻīnīyah dar ʻilm-i hayʾat.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 748

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5425kd96h

Publisher

[1282-1529]

Language

Persian

Date Created

1282-1529

Format

Manuscript

Extent

128 leaves : paper, ill. ; 191 x 119 (147 x 77-85) bound to 191 x 125 mm.

Provenance

The date 1357 is noted in conjunction with the title of the first text as given on fol. 1a.

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 36, 56

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 3a-53a: [Sharḥ-i S̲amarah-i Baṭlamyūs]. Persian translation of and commentary on an Arabic version of Ptolemy's Centiloquium, a collection of a hundred aphorisms on astrology. With original Arabic text; missing first page.

2. fol. 54a-130a: Risālah-i Muʻīnīyah dar ʻilm-i hayʾat. Manual of astronomy dedicated to Muʻīn al-Dīn Abū al-Shams, son of the author's patron Nāṣir al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Manṣūr (governor of Quhistan). Missing first page; with numerous diagrams.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Title of first text from fol. 1a, by a later hand; title of second text from fol. 54a.

On front cover: Label reading "284" in Arabic script.

Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.

Physical description: 15-16 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq by two different hands in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining; edges somewhat ragged.

Origin: First text completed Ramaḍān 935 H [May-June 1529] by Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī (fol. 53a). Second text completed on Wednesday, 7 Rabīʻ II 681 H [15 July 1282] (fol. 130a).

Binding Note

Limp dark brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; water damaged.

Discovery Information

Subject

Ptolemy active 2nd century—Centiloquium Arabic

Astrology—Early works to 1800

Astronomy, Arab—13th century

Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

136

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cec16325-8ff7-42d3-b5bc-d4611c502054/manifest

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