Risālah bar usṭurlāb
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: [Between 1650 and 1800?
Published: 1650
Place of publication: Iran?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Astrolabes; Persian Manuscripts
Description: On calculations needed to make an astrolabe.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from f. 1r.

Foliation: Pagination in red and black ink, upper center; pages missed. Foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Layout: 13 long lines.

Script: Written in taʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Headings and overlines in red; 16 diagrams (f. 9r, 10r/v, 11r/v, 12r, 13r/v, 14r, 15v, 16r/v, 17r, 19r/v, 20r) and 3 tables (f. 17v, 18r/v) in red and black.

Ottoman Turkish couplet on the front binding.

Shelfmark: MS Or 47.

Digital version available with no restrictions Unrestricted online access.

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

Persian.

Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).

Not bound.

Digitized. 2018 Columbia University Libraries committed to preserve