Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy.

Title:

Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy.

Creator:

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912
ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim, active 1543

Date:

A.H. 950 (1543)

Description:

Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy, the first and fourth treatise are incomplete; the first treatise skips from chapter 22 to chapter 30 (f. 5-6) and the fourth treatise is missing some amount of the beginning, the first complete section is "taṣtīḥ dāʼirat al-ufuq" (f. 14r).

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams
Treatises
Early works
Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
Astronomical instruments--Early works to 1800
Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Astrolabes
Astronomical instruments
Astronomy, Arab

Geographic region:

Cairo

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 1 June 1987, lot 138.Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999, lot N.3.Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Extent:

Written in 27 long lines; no catchwords.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania

Rights:

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Identifier:

LJS 412

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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