al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449, dedicatee; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1500
Place of publication: India?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Arab Geography; Early works to 1800; Astronomy; History; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Mukhtaṣar al-musammá bi-al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʻilm al-hayʼah
Description: Jaghmīnī's treatise on astronomy and geography with a preface and dedication to Ulugh Beg on the first 5 pages. Includes many diagrams and some empty spaces left for illustrations that were never completed.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (p. 5); alternate title from p. [1].

Pagination: Pages are numbered in ink, upper center: [1]-134. References in the record are to page numbers as they appear in the manuscript.

Layout: 14-23 long lines with extensive marginalia, including interlinear comments.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Decoration: Two tables (p. 12-13) and 45 diagrams in red and black; headings and other finding aids also in red.

Origin: Not dated; text was dedicated to Ulugh Beg when first composed; a marginal note on p. 2 also gives a date of A.H. 1256 (1840).

Shelfmark: MS Or 21.

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

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Covers missing, unsupported sewn textblock with helical style primary endband.

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