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Sharḥ-i bīst bāb

by Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad Qāsim Gunābādī & Gunābādī, Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad Qāsim, -1621 or 1622

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Language: Persian
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 ii, 99, ii leaves : 200 x 108 (155 x 60) mm, bound to 200 x 105 mm1442 Commentary on Birjandī's Bīst bāb dar taqvīm, a short treatise on chronology and the computation of almanacs; some tables have been ruled, but left unfilled Manuscript codex Title from added title (f. 1r) Layout: 21 long lines with marginalia, geometrical shapes and tables Script: Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed Decoration: Rubrications in two shades of red; tables and geometrical shapes in red and black Origin: Copy completed in Rajab 1201 AH (f. 97r) Persian customs stamp dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, [98]v) Shelfmark: MS Or 51 Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934 Red leather over pasteboard with faint, blind-tooled frame; stencilled paper doublures with a large, central motif of blue flowers with green leaves and stems on a bright purple ground surrounded by a wide border composed of green vines and edges with blue parallel line in-fill Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO

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Sharḥ-i bīst bāb

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1786-01-01T00:00:00Z[Iran?]PersianPublic digitized item

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