Sabʻ samavāt li-sirr-i samāʼī
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1603
Place of publication: [India?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Tables; Early works to 1800; Arab Astrology; Divination; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Sabʻ samavāt.; Sabʻ samawāt li-sirr samāʼī.
Description: Copy of an astrology text for divination. Includes a number of tables.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Foliation: Contemporary Hindu-Arabic foliation in ink, upper center recto, catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 15 long lines.

Script: Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Several tables (f. 3r, 7r, 37r, 37v, 42r-43r, 44v-47r, 50v, 60r, 67r, 70v) and diagrams (f. 25r, 25v, 55r, 76v-77r, 79r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 41.

Origin: Copy dated what appears to be 1011 AH (f. 86v), though that date might also be read as 1111 AH, which would fit better with this author, who was likely active in the second half of the 17th century (Browne, A supplementary hand-list of Muhammadan MSS in Cambridge (1922): p123-124). Likely copied in India.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

Half binding of red leather with marbled paper sides (red, blue, black, white).

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