زيج جديد سلطانى
- العناصر المساهمة:
- مكتبات بودليان
- البيانات المساهمة:
- مكتبات بودليان
- عنوان:
- زيج جديد سلطانى
- المؤلف:
- Author: Ulugh Beg ibn Shāhrukh ibn Tīmūr Gurgān (d. 853H/1449)
- المساهم:
- Annotator: Greaves, John, 1602-1652
Translator: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Rifāʿī al-Shāfiʿī - تاريخ المصدر:
- 20 Ṣafar 939H (21 September 1532)
- الوصف:
- Binding: European binding (repaired) of pasteboards covered with mottled brown leather. The covers have a central frame of four fillets with scallops interspersed with palmettes; at each corner of the central frame are large blind-stamped flower-heads. The covers also have narrow outer frames of two fillets. The spine (five cords) is undecorated. The pastedowns and endpapers (fols. ii–ii, iii–iv) are modern. The numeral 91 has been inked on the fore-edge of the manuscript.Contents note: Ff. 10a-12a are incomplete; f. 12b is blank; some of the tables ff. 48a-49a are incomplete; f.50a has been added by a later hand. Ff. 4b-5a, 12b and 93b-94a contain pencilled notes in several languages by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8).Dimensions: 26.4 × 18.0 (17.2 × 11.0) cm; the pages have been trimmed.Hand: Main text in Arabic naskh; notes in several other Arabic and Persian hands in addition to three European hands: Greaves, Bernard and unidentified.Layout: 21 lines per page, blank ink with red rubrics; from f. 50a, the text is enclosed in red-inked frames. Tables are laid out in grids using red and black ink.Record origin: "Description abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entry No. 6Record origin: pp. 26-30."An Arabic translation of Ulugh Beg’s astronomical and chronological tables (zīj) in the second, or revised, version. The copy is imperfect.
- اللغة:
- اللاتينية
الإنجليزية
العربية - النوع (Raw):
- المخطوطات
- (EDM) النوع:
- نص
- المنشأ:
- Former owner: Laud, William, 1573-1645Former owner: Greaves, John, 1602-1652Former owner: Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696"The manuscript came to St John's College through the donation of Archbishop William Laud (d. 1645). Prior to that it was in the collection of Edward Bernard (d. 1696)the Savilian Professor of Astronomywho had acquired it from the collection of John Greaves via the intermediary of one Mr Stubs."
- مادة الأثر:
- Paper
- المدى الزمني:
- 94 leaves, two endleaves and two front flyleaves, blank except for the St John’s College bookplate (i–ii + 1–94 + iii–iv).
- حقوق معيار دبلن كور:
- Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Terms of use: http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms.html
- المُعرِّف:
- "St John's College MS 91"
- جزء من:
- Arabic Manuscripts and Maps