Sharḥ-i Zīj Gūrgānī; شرح زیج گورگانی

Alternate Title:

Sharḥ-i Zīj-i Ulugh Bēg

Contributor:

Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Yaḥyá (former owner); Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Name:

Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1493

Description:

Commentary on the Zīj Gūrgānī, also known as the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sulṭānī, which comprised tables of calendar calculations, trigonometry, planets, and stars compiled from observations made at the observatory in Samarqand, completed in 1447. The tables themselves are not included.

Language:

Persian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Yaḥyá (stamp, f. 1v, 409r).; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1338712; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs400.html; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449. Zīj-i jadīd-i Sultānī; Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Commentaries; Diagrams; Annotations (Provenance); Stamps (Provenance); Manuscripts, Persian; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

409 leaves : paper, illustrations; 177 x 128 (111 x 72) mm bound to 177 x 138 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Third chief astronomer of the observatory in Samarqand.; Title from added title (f. 1r).; Collation: Paper, 409 + i; 41 gatherings, alternating between 8 and 12 leaves, with 1 extra leaf added to the last gathering; [1-409], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.; Layout: Written in 15 long lines; frame ruled.; Script: Written in a naskh script in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.; Binding: Contemporary red leather with flap (Type II), blind-stamped central mandorla on covers and flap; marbled paper doublure.; Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 899 (1493-1494, colophon, f. 409r).; Paper: Visible laid lines with chain lines in groups of 3.; Notations on f. 1r.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Persian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 400

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)