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).
Language:
Persian
Provenance:
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Relation:
Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs434.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/1017.12/100000324
7 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 216 x 137 (145 x 109) mm bound to 220 x 144 mm
Geographic Subject:
Islamic countries; Islamic countries -- Geography
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, 7; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.; 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.; 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.; Binding: 19th-century light brown leather with faded, gold-tooled frame.; Origin: Written in the Timurid Empire in eastern Persia, now Iran, ca. 1507 (based on date of horoscope diagram, f. 7v).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Persian.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 434
Collection:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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