[Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy]

Alternate Title:

Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah wa-sāʼirih.

Contributor:

Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003 (former owner)

Name:

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912; ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim, active 1543

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1543

Description:

Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy, the first and fourth treatise are incomplete; the first treatise skips from chapter 22 to chapter 30 (f. 5-6) and the fourth treatise is missing some amount of the beginning, the first complete section is "taṣtīḥ dāʼirat al-ufuq" (f. 14r).; 1. f.1v-10v: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah [incomplete] / Qusṭā ibn Lūqā -- 2. f.11r-12r: Risālat kaifīyat al-arṣād wa-ʻamāl dhāt al-ḥalaq -- 3. f.12v-13v: al-ʻAmal bi-al-asṭurlāb al-kurī wa-ʻajāʼibih -- 4. 14r-18v: Fī rasm al-asṭurlāb [incomplete] / ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 1 June 1987, lot 138.; Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999, lot N.3.; 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, 2021.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs412.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/1017.12/100000310

Subject:

Astronomical instruments; Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800; Astrolabes; Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy, Arab

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices (bound manuscripts); Diagrams; Treatises; Early works

Physical Description:

18 leaves : paper, illustrations; 226 x 149 (172 x 90) mm bound to 228 x 154 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Collective title supplied by cataloger; titles of individual works from caption titles.; Collation: Paper, 18; 1¹⁸; no foliation marked on leaves.; Layout: Written in 27 long lines; no catchwords.; Script: Written in naskh influenced by nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, with titles in a larger naskh in red and green ink; pointed.; Decoration: 9 astronomical diagrams (f. 14v, 15r, 16r-18v) in red and black ink; titles in green ink; significant words or phrases in red or green ink.; Binding: Marbled paper in bright yellow, blue, pink, and green with title and date in black ink on front cover; bound as a pamphlet.; Origin: Written in Cairo in A.H. Ṣafar 950 (May-June 1543) by ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim (f. 1r, 10v, 18v, upper cover).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 412

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)