Sharḥ-i Zīj Gūrgānī.
- Holding institution:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Sharḥ-i Zīj Gūrgānī.
شرح زیج گورگانی - Creator:
- Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
- Date:
- A.H. 899 (1493-1494)
- Description:
- Commentary on the Zīj Gūrgānī, also known as the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sulṭānī, which comprised tables of calendar calculations, trigonometry, planets, and stars compiled from observations made at the observatory in Samarqand, completed in 1447. The tables themselves are not included.
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries
Diagrams
Annotations (Provenance)
Stamps (Provenance)
Manuscripts, Persian--15th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Astronomy--Early works to 1800 - Geographic region:
- Iran?
- Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Yaḥyá (stamp, f. 1v, 409r).Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Extent:
- Written in 15 long lines; frame ruled.
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 400: Sharḥ-i Zīj Gūrgānī. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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- LJS 400
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World