Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments
- Holding institution:
- Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments
- Creator:
- Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912
Marrākushī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī, active 13th century
Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm
Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
Muwaqqit, Muḥammad ibn Kātib Sinān - Date:
- between 1694 and 1799?
- Description:
- Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish copied in the same hand and bound together; the Turkish work (3) is missing the first leaf; f. 84v-98v are all excerpts from (naqala min) the same book with no attribution, Miṣbāḥ al-ẓalām.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams
Manuscripts (documents)
Tables (documents)
Almucantar--Early works to 1800
Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Astronomical instruments--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
Timekeeping--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York - Geographic region:
- Turkey?
- Provenance:
- Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
- Extent:
- 19-22 long lines.
- Publisher:
- Columbia University.
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 285: Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments 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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- MS Or 285
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World