[Jadāvil-i ikhtiyārāt].

Title:

[Jadāvil-i ikhtiyārāt].

Abstract:

Tables used in an astrological technique for determining auspicious times for carrying out various activities. Also includes geographical illustrations and diagrams and half of a horoscope diagram for a location in northern Afghanistan dated Friday, 27 Shawwāl 912 (12 March 1507).

Coverage:

Islamic countries.; Islamic countries

Date:

1507

Description:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Format:

7 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 216 x 137 (145 x 109) mm bound to 220 x 144 mm

Identifier:

9948287273503681; (OCoLC)792957720; (OCoLC)ocn792957720; (PU)4828727-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Persian

Provenance:

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002.

Publisher:

[Iran?], approximately A.H. 912 (1507)

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs434.html; http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Islamic astrology -- Early works to 1800.; Geography.; Islamic astrology.; Tables (documents); Manuscripts, Persian.; World maps.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Almanacs.; Diagrams.; Manuscripts, 16th century.

Type:

Manuscripts

Personal Name:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Corporate Name:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in the Timurid Empire in eastern Persia, now Iran, ca. 1507 (based on date of horoscope diagram, f. 7v).; Binding: 19th-century light brown leather with faded, gold-tooled frame.; Decoration: 6 colored diagrams (eastern half of a double-page world map, f. 1r; structure and arrangement of seven climatic zones, f. 2v; geographical relationship of various cities to Mecca, f. 3r; rainbow predictions, f. 4v; setting and rising of the moon, f. 5r; half of a double-page horoscope diagram, f. 7v) and 8 decorated tables (ikhtiyārāt for the days of the solar month, f. 1v-2r; ikhtiyārāt for the lunar mansions, f. 3v-4r; ikhtiyārāt for the moon in one of the zodiacal signs, f. 5v-6r); marginal ruling in gold; significant words or numbers in red or green ink.; Layout: Textblock border-ruled in gold with vertical margins extended to upper edge of the page.; Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, with headings in naskh script.; Foliation: Paper, 7; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.; Persian.

Call Number:

LJS 434

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)