Bīst bāb dar ʻilm-i usṭurlāb
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1817
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Early works to 1800; History; Astrolabes; Arab Geography; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Mukhtaṣar-i bīst
Description: Treatise on astrolabes. Likely an abridgement of Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i usṭurlāb by Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 1274). Attribution is uncertain.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from f.1r; alternate title from introduction, but incomplete because of damage to the leaf (f. 1v).

Pagination: Pages numbered in ink, upper outer corners. Modern foliation has been added in pencil, upper left recto. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Layout: 13 long lines with marginalia, geometrical shapes, and tables.

Script: Written in nastaʻliq; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications; 11 drawings and tables (f. 4r-5r, Insert r/v, 24r, 25r, 26r-27r).

Origin: Copied in 1232 AH., according to the colophon (f. 22v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 48.

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 with two pages in Arabic (f. 23r/v).

Not bound.

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