Chand risālah dar ḥisāb va hayʼāt
Contributors: ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621; Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274; Yazdī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad; Schaefler, Sam, former owner; Mīrzā, Muḥammad Valī, 1789-1864, dedicatee; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1575
Place of publication: [Iran]
Language: per
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Astronomy; History; Astronomical instruments; Early works to 1800; Arithmetic; Geometry; Compasses (Mathematical instruments); Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: On the names of the Solar months.; Ṣūrat-i tazāyud-i irtifāʻ bar sabīl-i tanāquḍ wa tanāquḍ bar sabīl-i tazāyud.; Istikshāf āz rāyhā-yi tāzah-i ḥakīmān-i Farang.; Dar ānchih tābiʻ-i masāḥat.
Description: Composite manuscript written in at least three hands and on more than one type of paper containing eight treatises on astronomy and arithmetic with an introduction; diagrams within and between the works. Some of the works are dedicated to Muḥammad Valī Mīrzā, the third son of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qajar (see for example, f. 171v, 279r).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Titles supplied from table of contents pasted into front inside cover or from caption titles.

Layout: Various layouts, but chiefly written 14-17 long lines.

Script: Chiefly written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed; some marginalia in shikastah and some quotations in naskh.

Decoration: Rubrications chiefly in red with a few in brown; numerous diagrams in red, black, and brown; some tables in red and black.

Origin: Works 3, 5, 6 dated 1241 A.H. (f. 46v, 78v, 97r); works 8 and 9 dated 1245 A.H. (f. 171r); work 10 is dated 983 A.H. (255r); work 11 is undated.

Shelfmark: MS Or 462.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of Sam Schaefler (library bookplate inside front cover).

Persian.

Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard; gold tooled frame; black doublure.

Brabyn, Trevor and Ansari, Mohammad Sadegh. "On Void and the Plausibility of the Copernican Paradigm: an Indo-Persian Link in the Qajar Reception of Modern Astronomy." Philological Encounters 5.3 (2020): 378-408.

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 3v-4v: [On the names of the Solar months]; title: 2. f. 5r-6r: [Introduction]; title: 3. f. 6v-46v: Hayʼāt-i Fārsī; title: 4. f. 47r: Ṣūrat-i tazāyud-i irtifāʻ bar sabīl-i tanāquḍ va tanāquḍ bar sabīl-i tazāyud; title: 5. f. 48v-78v: Haftād bāb dar usṭurlāb; title: 6. f. 80v-97r: Istikshāf āz rāyhā-yi tāzah-i ḥakīmān-i Farang; title: 7. f. 98v-99r: [Astronomical tables]; title: 8. f. 99v-140r: Ḥisāb-i Fārsī; title: 9. f. 140v-171r: Dar ānchih tābiʻ-i masāḥat; title: 10. f. 172v-255r: Risālah-i muʻīnīyah; title: 11. f. 256v-278r: [Sharḥ-i Risālah-i muʻīnīyah]; title: 12. f. 278v-287v: Risālah dar maʻrifat-i quṭbʹnamā