[Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah]; [شرح الملخص في الهيئة]

Contributor:

Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 (dedicatee)

Name:

Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1427

Description:

Ms. codex.; Commentary on the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah, written in the 12th century by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī. Numerous marginal annotations by the copyist.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ḥaydar ibn Shāhī Hamdānī (ownership inscription and stamp without date, f. 65r, same stamp on f. 1r).; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Hamdānī, Ḥaydar ibn Shāhī, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs408.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000304

Subject:

Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah; Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221?

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 15th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; codices (bound manuscripts); annotations; commentaries; diagrams; Stamps (Provenance); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

65 leaves : paper, illustrations; 168 x 117 (113 x 68) mm bound to 169 x 125 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Second director of the observatory established in Samarqand in 1420 under the patronage of governor and astronomer Ulugh Beg.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, i + 65 + i; 1⁸ (first leaf flyleaf) 2⁸( -1) 3-8⁸ 9⁴ (last leaf flyleaf); no foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.; Layout: Written in 21 long lines.; Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: 23 astronomical diagrams in red and black ink; headings and overlinings in red.; Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard, gilt-tooled mostly rubbed, central 6-pointed star in a circle with dots in and around the star centered between two sets of rectangles, double frame; inside covers have block-stamped pattern.; Origin: Written in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, dated A.H. 830 (end of Ramadan; July 1427) (f. 64v-65r).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic, with some Persian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 408

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)