[Astrological compilation]

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

168 leaves : paper ; 194 x 128 mm bound to 196 x 135 mm; Binding: Black leather (Type III) with painted gilt borders, stamped with a central mandorla and four pendants on the vertical axis, the middle two pendants bear the name Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Bāqir; red leather doublure with gold painted central floral cross and frame.; Decoration: Ink drawings in the Dhakhīrat Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn of an animal, perhaps a jackal (f. 149v), 2 worms with pincers (f. 150v), hybrids of a snake with an animal's head and a person with a snake's tail (f. 151r), a scorpion (f. 151v), a crane (f. 152v), a youth with one hand on his head (f. 153r), and a rougher, sexual drawing of a man and a woman (f. 154v); tables in red and black (f. 41r-107r); significant words or phrases and headings in red throughout.; Foliation: Paper, i + 168 + i; [1-168], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.; Layout: Written in varying numbers of long lines.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Some works dated 1081 A.H. (1670 CE), mention they were copied in the madrasah of ʻAlī Jāh Maḥmūd Beg Nāẓir (f. 136v, 157r, 168v), probably in Iṣfahān (f. 136v) in Persia, now Iran.; Persian.; Related Work: Fārsī, Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century. Maṭāliʻʹnāmah.; Related Work: Shīrāzī, Ḥaydar ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century-14th century. Irshād-i usṭurlāb.; Script: Written in nastaʻlīq by multiple hands in black ink; pointed.; Table of contents: 1. f.1v-20v: Irshād-i usṭurlāb / Nāṣir ibn Ḥaydar ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī -- 2. f.21r-21v: Fī aḥkām khusūf al-qamr min kalām Dāniyāl al-Nabī -- 3. f.22r-96v: [Collection of treatises and tables] -- 4. f.97v-136v: Maṭāliʻʹnāmah / Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad Taqī Fārsī -- 5. f.137r-157r: Dhakhīrat Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn -- 6. f.157v-160v: [Treatise on a horoscope] -- 7. f.161r-162r: Faṣl dar aḥkām-i fard-i imrāt -- 8. f.163r-168v: [On astronomy and the astrolabe]; Three ownership seals (1r, 137r, 157r, 168v).; Title supplied by cataloger.