Kitāb-i Ṣuwar al-kawākib
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: [India?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Islamic astronomy; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Ṣuwar al-kawākib
Work titles: Ṣuwar al-kawākib
Description: Lacunose copy of an illustrated Persian translation of a book of astronomy, mostly focused on the constellations; constellation illustrations from two sides have been transferred by pounce and are sometimes not completely inked or painted (see f. 52v, for example). Others have been outlined by pricking (see f. 58 lower illustrations, for example).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: 23 lines per page and occasional tables of variable dimensions.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: 65 illustrations of constellations, often in color; numerous tables in red and black; rubrications in red.

Origin: The item is undated; probably copied in the 18th or 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 442.

Owner's note and stamp (f. 1r).

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Persian.

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