Title and text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others.Origin: As appears in colophon on p.46, copied by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn [?] Mūsá al-ʻUmarī al-Shāfiʻī with transcription completed 17 [?] Rabīʻ I 932 [ca. 1 January 1526]."An abridgement of the author's Murshidat al-ṭālib. In a muqaddima, two bābs, and a khātima." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.
Set of works on mathematics and astronomy copied together in what appears to be the same hand. The second work has a supercommentary copied in the margins. Several leaves of calculations and notations tipped or laid in; two tipped in pages have been foliated along with the leaves (f. 26, 33). Also includes one page in Ottoman Turkish (f.94v).
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone (f. 1 only). See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Contains astronomical and mathematical tables and geometric diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist and others; some pp. missing, f. 1 supplied in different paper in different hand."Extended commentary with some tables" on author's Qalāʾid al-laʾālī fī ʻamal al-ayyām wa-al-layālī, "a poem on timekeeping in unnumbered faṣls." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 104.
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated; bayts numbered by copyist; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 715,2).Date and name of copyist and client in colophon: kamala al-kitāb wa-tamma ... ʻalá yad mālikihi al-ḥaqīr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ lil-shaykh al-Ḥusaynī al-Mālalī[?] al-Qāsimī al-Jadīdī bi-al-Azhar al-muʻammaq 12 Ramaḍān al-muʻaẓẓam sanat 1032 [10 July 1623].Pp. [1-10]. Bound with: Kitāb fī al-taksīr fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb, pp. [11-14].A poem on arithmetic.
Recto: letter with substandard orthography, dealing with a consignment of clothes. Verso: commentary on BT Qiddušin 26a and a general explanation of mathematical matters.Condition: torn, holes, faded, stainedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 14-15 lines in 2 columns (verso)
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.