[Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb]; [كتاب في استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الاسطرلاب]

Name:

Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1228

Description:

Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 2006.; Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.; Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs478.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/1017.12/100000482

Subject:

Compasses (Mathematical instruments); Astronomical instruments; Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800; Astrolabes; Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800; Compasses (Mathematical instruments) -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 13th century; Manuscripts, Medieval; codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; treatises; Stamps (Provenance); Annotations (Provenance)

Physical Description:

i, 86, i leaves : paper, color illustrations; 252 x 171 (190 x 124) mm bound to 252 x 178 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. f. 1v-66r: Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb / Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī -- 2. f. 66v: Fī istikhrāj al-ṭaliʻ min al-Sarṭān wa-al-Muṭabbal -- 3. f. 67r-72v: Fī ḥaqq al-qamr -- 4. f. 73r-75r: Maqālah fī ḥarakat al-iltifāf / Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham -- 5. f. 76v-86v: Kitāb fī al-ālah allatī samīnā al-birkār al-tāmm / Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Qūhī; Foliation: Paper, i + 87 + i; [1-87]; some irregular foliation in ink, upper right verso.; Layout: Written in 21-24 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.; Decoration: Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.; Binding: 13th-century leather, blind-stamped, with replacement flap.; Origin: Copy compled in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228) (f. 66r, 86v).; Paper: Laid paper chain lines occasionally visible in sets of two.; Given as a pious endowment (waqf) in 1292 A.H. (note in Persian in ink, f. 1r); several other notes and stamps (f. 1r, 75r), one dated 1120 A.H. (f. 86v).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.; Related Work: Alhazen, 965-1039. Maqālah fī ḥarakat al-iltifāf.; Related Work: Qūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustam, -approximately 1000. Fī al-ālah allatī tusammá al-birkār al-tāmm.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 478

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)