Panjāh bāb-i sulṭānī bi-ʻilm-i usṭurlāb
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Abū al-Qāsim Bābur Mīrzā, dedicatee; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1750
Place of publication: Herat]
Language: per
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Astrolabes; Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Astronomical instruments; Persian Manuscripts
Description: On the use of the astrolabe in calendar making and astrology; ends abruptly; no colophon.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from p. [1] of the manuscript.

Pagination: Numbers in ink at the top of every other page, number 11 repeats. Catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the pagination as it appears in the manuscript.

Layout: 17 lines per page with some marginalia; frame-ruled.

Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink.

Decoration: Section headers and overlines in red. Includes 7 tables: pp. [24], [32], 35, [36], 43, [54], [60], and 4 diagrams: pp. 25, [26], 27, 63.

Origin: Likely copied in Herat. The work is written on different types of paper including European laid paper and machine-made paper.

Shelfmark: MS Or 19.

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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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Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

Islamic binding, sewn on two wide leather thongs. Full dark brown leather, blind tooled.

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