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al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʼah.
التحفة الشاهية في الهيئة.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 1237-1310 or 1311.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy, Arab.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- diagrams
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Qāsim al-Īrawānī (owner's note and stamp, f. 1r).
- Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
- Physical Description:
- 164 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 215 x 125 (135 x 65) mm bound to 218 x 120 mm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Iran?], A.H. 960 (1553)
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Treatise on astronomy in four chapters, written for the wazīr Amīr Shāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣadr al-Saʻīd Tāj al-Dīn Muʻtazz ibn Ṭāhir (Kashf al-ẓunūn, ed. Fluegel, vol. 2, p. 229, with the title of each of the four chapters).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction (f. 2r).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Some contemporary pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black pen, upper outer corners (1-50 only). References in the record are to the modern foliation.
- Layout: 19 long lines; frame ruled.
- Script: Written in nastaʻlīq; pointed, unvocalized.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red. Numerous diagrams in red and black (f. 3r, 4v, 7r, 8r-8v, 14r, 22v, 25v, 26v, 31v, 33v, 34v, 35v, 36v, 37v-38v, 40v, 42v, 44r, 52v, 56v-57r, 62v, 65r, 70r, 70v-71v, 73r, 74r-74v, 75v, 79v, 81v, 83v, 87r-87v, 92v-93r [diagram across full opening], 93v, 99r, 101v-102r, 103v, 104v, 106r-107r, 124r, 127r-128r, 133v, 135r, 144v, 147v, 151r-152r, 153r-153v, 159r).
- Binding: Brown leather covers over pasteboard with black textile spine; thin leather doublure; blind stamped mandorla with gold tooled outline on outside covers with gold tooled pendants, and frame.
- Origin: Copy completed on A.H. 25 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 960 (20 April 1553) by Ṣ̣adr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī (f. 164r).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1900
- OCLC:
- 1083523100
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