Description of the province of Fars in Persia at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

Romanized.Mode of access: Internet

Kitāb fī ʻilm al-hayʾah : manuscript, [17th century?] /

"A treatise dealing mainly with astrology.... This work merits investigation." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 42.Watermarks: Three crescents; initials W+W. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains star tables and astronomical diagrams.Rubrication on first 5 pp. only; marginal corrections in another hand.GAS,"A treatise dealing mainly with astrology.... This work merits investigation." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 42.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundPurchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's autograph: fī milk al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad[?] muʾadhdhin bayt Allāh ...[?]; on p. [1], milk al-faqīr al-shaykh ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-T[?]; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof

Kitāb al-Aqālīm /

Edited by J.H. Möller.The text is an abridgement of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Kitāb al-Masālik wa-al-mamālik, itself based on a work by al-Balkhī.Facsimile of the Gotha manuscript produced by lithography by J.I.Uckermann of Erfurt."Ad similitudinem codicis Gothani accurantissime delineandum et lapidus exprimendum curavit Dr. J. H. Moeller," -- Added t.p.Title on added t.p.: Liber climatum, auctore Scheicho Abu-Ishako el-Faresi vulgo el-Issthachri.Gacek. Arabic lithographed books,Mode of access: Internet

[Mecmua, 1024, i.e. 1615 or 1616].

Elegant copy of a selection of short treatises, mainly on date calculations, calendar tables, etc. including explication (see p.9) and selections (see p.24 on) from the calendar or almanac of Şeyh Vefa (Muslihittin Mustafa, d.1490), interspersed with calligraphic specimens signed by the copyist.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 398Origin: As appears in colophon at close on p.56, copied by Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad al-Balkhī with transcription completed in Bağçasaray (Bāghchahʻsarāy /باغچه سراى ), capital of the Krim Tatar state, in 1024 [1615 or 16].Former shelfmark: "248 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on repair to 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in marbled paper (in yellow, blue, red, and turquoise) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled central ornament of interlace forming diamond shape with pendants ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, cracking and losses of leather, staining, etc. ; small repair to spine in red leather, also damaged.Support: non-European laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, somewhat distinct, some curving) and chain lines occasionally visible, cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, dark beige in color, well-burnished ; staining and tears, repairs (fills and guards) in European laid paper.Decoration: Splendid though damaged illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche defined by looping white banding with black crosses surrounded by arabesques and floral motifs in gold, red, white, pink, pistachio, etc. on grounds of gold and deep blue, bordered in a heavy band of lozenges and rosettes and surmounted by a scalloped semi-circular piece or dome with similar floral vegetal motifs on grounds of turquoise, deep blue (lapis) and gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents ; written area throughout surrounded by gold frame, divisions within defined by narrow gold or turquoise bands ; textual dividers in the form of turquoise inverted commas ; many headings and keywords rubricated ; several diagrams and tables outlined in gold, turquoise or red ; opening calligraphic specimen (on p.1) surrounded by marginal decoration in gold floral vegetal motifs ; written area occasionally gold-flecked (as for the calligraphic specimen on p.35 and tables and text in section following) ; illustration of rainbow (قوس قزح) on p.47.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; fine hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of inclination to the right, descent of words to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots.Layout: Written mainly in 16 lines per page but with many diagrams and tables of varying size ; frame-ruled.Collation: V (10), 2 IV(36), 2 (38) ; quinion and two quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "نوشته شد از براى سلطان دولت نشان ذى شان جنكيزى حفظه الله تعالى عن الافات والبليات نمقه العبد المذنب الفقير الحقير حافظ محمد البلخى وحرره بباغجه سراى المحروسه سنه ١٠٢۴"Incipit: "بو منطويه آيك قنقى برجده اولدوغن بلمك طريقن بلدرر هر نيجه كون كيجسه آيدن اى اخى قوى آتك اوستينه اول دكلو در خي ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a selection of short treatises, mainly on date calculations, calendar tables, etc. including explication (see p.9) and selections (see p.24 on) from the calendar or almanac of Şeyh Vefa (Muslihittin Mustafa, d.1490), interspersed with calligraphic specimens signed by the copyist.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Occasional glosses (some dated 1191 [1777], 1086 [1675 or 6], 1073 [1662 or 3], see p.36, 38, 39, etc.) ; verses of calligraphic inscription on lower doublure ascribed to Muḥammad Girāy Sulṭān (Mehmet Giray Sultan) and seemingly dated 1096 [1684 or 5]