Kitāb-i Surkhāb dar ʻilm-i raml
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1528
Language: per
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Geomancy; Early works to 1800; Persian Manuscripts
Description: On geomancy; stated to be transmitted from sayings of the prophet Daniel (f. 2r); numerous tables and inserts.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from note on f. 1r.

Layout: 17 long lines with extensive marginalia and numerous tables.

Foliation: Foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto; catchwords most versos, lower left.

Script: Written in taʻlīq in black ink.

Decoration: Headings, geomantic symbols, and overlines in red; tables in red and black.

Origin: Copied in 936 AH, according to the colophon (f. 63r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 39.

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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.

Persian.

Not bound, loose in Western paper wrapper.

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