University of Pennsylvania, LJS 411
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS144
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 411
- Title:
- Sharḥ-i Zīj-i Ulugh Bēg / شرح زيج الغ بيگ
- Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century / برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين، active 16th century
- Date:
- A.H. 929 (1523)
- Language:
- Persian
- Material:
- paper, illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 242 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 244 x 174 (190 x 130) mm bound to 247 x 186 mm +
- Former Owner(s):
- Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003
Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r)
Foliation: Paper, ii + 242; [1-11, i, 12-63, i, 64-85, i, 86-87, i, 88-130, i, 131-220, i, 221-230, i, 231-242], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines.
Script: Written in neat nastaʻlīq script in black ink, by the author, with marginal commentary in the hand of Mullah Muẓaffar (f. 239v).
Decoration: Numerous diagrams and some tables in red and black ink; 2 marginal diagrams in green ink (f. 209r); overlining in red throughout.
Binding: Later black leather over pasteboard (Type III); some notes and diagrams in margins show signs of trimming.
Origin: Copy completed in Rajab 929 A.H. (June 1523) by the author (Anā al-ʻabd ʻAbd al-ʻAlī) with date conversions given to three other calendars (f. 240r).
Reading note (f. 240r); other notes (f. 240v, [242]v).
Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9951131033503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3pr7mv3j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
