Sharḥ-i S̲amarah-i Baṭlamyūs
- Holding institution:
- Princeton University Library
- Data provider:
- Princeton University Library
- Title:
- Sharḥ-i S̲amarah-i Baṭlamyūs
- Alternative title:
- Nujūm-i Baṭlamyūs
- Creator:
- Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
- Date:
- 1282-1529
- Description:
- Abstract: Two texts on astrology and astronomy by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; water damaged.Contents: "1. fol. 3a-53a: Sharḥ-i S̲amarah-i Baṭlamyūs. Persian translation of and commentary on an Arabic version of Ptolemy's CentiloquiumContents: a collection of a hundred aphorisms on astrology. With original Arabic text; missing first page."Contents: "2. fol. 54a-130a: Risālah-i Muʻīnīyah dar ʻilm-i hayʾat. Manual of astronomy dedicated to Muʻīn al-Dīn Abū al-ShamsContents: son of the author's patron Nāṣir al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Manṣūr (governor of Quhistan). Missing first page; with numerous diagrams."Ms. composite codex.Title of first text from fol. 1a, by a later hand; title of second text from fol. 54a.On front cover: Label reading "284" in Arabic script.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 15-16 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq by two different hands in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining; edges somewhat ragged.Origin: First text completed Ramaḍān 935 H May-June 1529 by Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī (fol. 53a). Second text completed on Wednesday, 7 Rabīʻ II 681 H 15 July 1282 (fol. 130a).
- Language:
- Persian
- Type:
- Early works to 1800
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Ptolemy, active 2nd century—Centiloquium. Arabic
- Provenance:
- The date 1357 is noted in conjunction with the title of the first text as given on fol. 1a.
- Extent:
- 128 leaves : paper, ill. ; 191 x 119 (147 x 77-85) bound to 191 x 125 mm.
- Publisher:
- 1282-1529
- Rights:
- https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services
- Identifier:
- Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 748
Electronic Resource
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- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts