Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl
Contributors: Qummī, Taqī ibn ʻAlī, former owner; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1600
Language: per
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800; History; Islamic calendar; Arab Astrology; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm
Work titles: Sī faṣl
Description: Copy of a treatise on different calendars and how to convert them one to another and the revolution of heavenly bodies and their impact on different days of the year.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Layout: Chiefly written in 17-19 long; tables.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Numerous astronomical tables, chiefly in red ink; geometrical figures.

Origin: The work is dated 775 AH, but it is was likely produced later than that, perhaps in the 17th or 18th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 11.

Stamp with name ʻĀlamgīr? Shāh Khān [...]bādī (f. 1r).

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

Formerly owned by Taqī ibn ʻAlī al-Qummī (note and stamp with same name dated 1271 AH (1854 or 1855 CE), f. 1r).

Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (signature, third flyleaf recto at front of book and third flyleaf verso at back of book).

Half covers with marbled sides and red leather corners and spine.

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