[Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb-i usṭurlāb]
Contributors: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274; Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl, former owner; Schaefler, Sam, former owner, donor; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Language: per
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Astrolabes; Early works to 1800; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Sharḥ bar Bīst bāb-i Khvājah Naṣīr dar usṭurlāb
Work titles: Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb
Description: A commentary on the book about the astrolabe by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī; some diagrams and tables; the final leaf is a later replacement.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger; other title from bookplate first flyleaf recto.

Layout: 19 long lines.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; diagrams and tables in red and black.

Origin: The copy is undated, but a note places it in Iṣfahān in the month of Rajab 1270 A.H. (f. 1r). It was likely copied in the 18th or 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 461.

Bookplate with title, author, and number 58 pasted onto front flyleaf recto.

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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 Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl (?) (note dated 1270 A.H., f. 1r).

Gift of Sam Schaefler (library bookplate inside front cover).

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with blind-tooled double frame; bright blue pastedowns.

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