Risālah dar hayʼat. [Sharḥ-i Risālah dar hayʼat]
Contributors: Muṣliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārī, Muḥammad ibn Ṣalāḥ, -1571 or 1572; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: Turkey?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Arab Astronomy; Persian Manuscripts
Description: An astronomical treatise by al-Qūshjī and a commentary on it by Muṣliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārī, copied together. A leaf (f. [23]) may have been removed. In the commentary, source-text is overlined in red.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title of first work from introduction to second work (f. [22v]) and title from second work from added title in later hand (f. [1r]).

Layout: 27 lines with some marginalia. Opening page pricked and ruled in dry point.

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

Decoration: Rubrications in red. Astronomical diagrams in red and black.

Origin: Item is undated. Likely copied in the 18th or 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 298.

Digital version available with no restrictions Unrestricted online access.

Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Persian.

Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).

Paper over pasteboard with flap. Marbed green and blue sides and flap with green patterned frame. Spine repaired in red textile.

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