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Zīj

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  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Language: Arabic
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 77 foliated leaves : 220 x 136 (130 x 83) mm, bound to 220 x 142 x 13 mm Copy of a work on horoscopes. A short introduction precedes numerous tables of their risings and settings Manuscript codex Title from title page (f. 1r); other title from beginning of work (f. 1v) Layout: Written in 23 long lines or in 10-column tables; border-ruled Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed Decoration: Border-rules and rubrications in red Origin: The item is undated; possibly produced in the 18th century Shelfmark: MS Or 293 Three owner's notes, two of which are dated 1212 A.H. (1797 CE) and 1246 A.H. (1830 CE) (second front flyleaf recto) and two effaced stamps (first and second front flyleaves recto) Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936 Formerly owned by al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj Ismāʻīl ibn Pīr Muḥammad Afandī Sarūrī (note in ink second front flyleaf recto) Formerly owned by [...] Dahīʹzādah, 1212 A.H. (1797 CE) (note in ink second front flyleaf recto) Formerly owned by Ibrāhīmʹzādah Ismāʻīl Z̲ihnī?, 1246 A.H. (1830 CE) (note in ink second front flyleaf recto) Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplates inside front and back covers) 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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  • Astrology

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