Sharḥ-i bīst bāb
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1786
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Arab Astrology; Islamic astronomy; Islamic calendar; Persian Manuscripts
Description: Commentary on Birjandī's Bīst bāb dar taqvīm, a short treatise on chronology and the computation of almanacs; some tables have been ruled, but left unfilled.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from added title (f. 1r).

Layout: 21 long lines with marginalia, geometrical shapes and tables.

Script: Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in two shades of red; tables and geometrical shapes in red and black.

Origin: Copy completed in Rajab 1201 AH (f. 97r).

Persian customs stamp dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, [98]v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 51.

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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 David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

Red leather over pasteboard with faint, blind-tooled frame; stencilled paper doublures with a large, central motif of blue flowers with green leaves and stems on a bright purple ground surrounded by a wide border composed of green vines and edges with blue parallel line in-fill.

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