Delhi Persian 1450 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on astrology, 2 items (a-b)
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Language(s): Persian, Arabic
Delhi Persian 1450(a), ff. 1v-107v.
Substantial fragment of the untitled Persian abridged translation and commentary by Niẓām al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (d. 932/1528) on the treatise on the science of astrolabes entitled Bīst bāb-i maʿrifat-i aʿmāl-i uṣṭurlāb by the polymath Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Ṭūsī (d. 672/1274).
The work comprises, as suggested by the title, twenty chapters termed bāb following a brief introduction.
Not dated at end. Datable to the early seventeenth century.
Cramped scribal nastaʿlīq tending to shikastah in later portions, partial diacritics.
Corrections and annotations in margins.
Spaces for diagrams left blank.
No rubrication.
Delhi Persian 1450(b), ff. 108r-155v.
Fragment of an unidentified astrological treatise, beginning toward the end of the forty-third chapter and extending to the hundredth chapter, setting out in detail a particular astral calculations.
Dated colophon (f. 155v): completed by Fayz̤ Allāh while the imperial entourage was encamped at Aḥmadnagar, 17 Rabīʿ al-Ākhirah (sic) in RY 50 of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I equating to 1118/29 July 1706.
Calligraphic nastaʿlīq; rubrication.
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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