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Zīj-i Gūrgānī : manuscript
Creator
Uniform Title
Zīj-i jadīd-i Sultānī
زىج جدىد سلطانى
Title
Zīj-i Gūrgānī : manuscript / Ulugh Beg.
زىج گورگانى : مخطوطة / ألغ بگ.
Created
Place not identified, 1779 or 1780.
Physical Description
1 volume (14 leaves) ; 23 cm
Language
Arabic; Turkish, Ottoman
Notes
Title from folio 1a.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī khalaqa al-arḍ wa-al-samāwāt wa-zayyanahā bi-al-kawākib al-thawābit wa-al-sayyārāt wa-qaddara manāzil li-yuʻlama bi-hā ʻadad al-sinīn wa-ḥisāb al-awqāt, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Rasūlihi Muḥammad ṣāḥib al-muʻjizāt wa-muẓhir al-ḥikam wa-al-āyāt wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-muqīmīn bi-aḥsan al-taqwīm wa-al-aḥkām al-bayyināt ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي خلق الأرض والسموات وزينها بالكواكب الثوابت والسيّارات وقدّر منازل ليعلم بها عدد السنين وحساب الأوقات، والصلوة والسلام على رسوله محمد صاحب المعجزات ومظهر الحكم والآيات وعلى آله وأصحابه المقيمين بأحسن التقويم والأحكام البيّنات ..."
Secundo folio: Ulugh Bik ribāṭ.
بداية الورقة الثانية: ألغ بك رباط.
17 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 16.5 cm; lines per page vary.
Binding: Unbound.
In small naskh script, in black ink on white paper, headings and markings in red; some notes on the margins; some wormholes.
Colophon: Colophon missing.
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
Provenance
Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2005.
Summary
Zīj (astronomical tables) of Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 (a Persian astronomer), in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, presented to the Sultan ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Khān ibn Aḥmad Khān (Abdülhamid I Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789), in 1193 Hijrī (1779 or 1780). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned.
Variant and related titles
Zīj Kūrkānī
زيج كوركاني
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
September 01, 2017
References
Ulugh Beg, Zīj Gūrgānī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Ulugh Beg, Zīj Gūrgānī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 18th century.
Manuscripts, Turkish - 18th century.
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