[Collection of astronomical texts]

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Name:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1500

Description:

Collection of astronomical works by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which include material on sunset and sunrise, the size of the earth, the moon, the distance to the moon, the distance between the sun and the planets, movement of the spheres, and eclipses. Some marginal notes in another hand, affected by trimming.

Language:

Persian

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs407.html; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000305

Subject:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian; Manuscripts, 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices (bound manuscripts); Anthologies; Diagrams; Handbooks; Inlays (decorative components); Early works

Physical Description:

77 leaves : paper; 166 x 112 (150 x 85) mm bound to 175 x 120 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Persian philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and physician.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, i + 77 + i; [1-77], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.; Layout: Written in 21 long lines.; Script: Written in a naskh script by a single hand.; Decoration: 15 astronomical diagrams in red and black; rubrications in red.; Binding: Later red leather over pasteboard; gilt stamped with inlay central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis; spine at the manuscript's top edge, like a notepad.; Origin: Item is undated; perhaps copied in the 16th century.; Paper: Wove paper.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Persian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 407

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)