Zīj-i Gūrgānī : manuscript
زىج گورگانى : مخطوطة

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10841803

Description

Title
Zīj-i Gūrgānī : manuscript
زىج گورگانى : مخطوطة
Alternative Title
Zīj-i jadīd-i Sultānī 880-01
Zīj Kūrkānī
زىج جدىد سلطانى 240-01/r
زيج كوركاني
Creator
Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449
Published / Created
1779 or 1780.
Publication Place
Place not identified
Abstract

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

Description
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
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 ..."
Secundo folio: Ulugh Bik ribāṭ.
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.
Provenance
Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2005.
Extent
1 volume (14 leaves) ; 23 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
Arabic
Turkish, Ottoman

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Arabic MSS suppl. 592

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Tables
Manuscripts, Arabic 18th century
Manuscripts, Turkish 18th century
Arabic manuscripts
Turkish manuscripts
Resource Type
text
Subject (Name)
Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789.
Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449.
Subject (Topic)
Astronomy, Arab
Subjects
Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789
Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449
Astronomy, Arab > Early works to 1800
Astronomy, Arab > Tables > Early works to 1800
18th century
Arabic manuscripts
Turkish manuscripts
Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789 > Ownership

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Citation
Ulugh Beg, Zīj Gūrgānī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
13271970
Object ID (OID)
10841803

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