Risālah bar usṭurlāb

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 50 paginated and upaginated leaves : 207 x 148 (160 x 93) mm, bound to 215 x 150 mm On calculations needed to make an astrolabe Manuscript codex Title from f. 1r Foliation: Pagination in red and black ink, upper center; pages missed. Foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. References in the record are to the modern foliation Layout: 13 long lines Script: Written in taʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized Decoration: Headings and overlines in red; 16 diagrams (f. 9r, 10r/v, 11r/v, 12r, 13r/v, 14r, 15v, 16r/v, 17r, 19r/v, 20r) and 3 tables (f. 17v, 18r/v) in red and black Ottoman Turkish couplet on the front binding Shelfmark: MS Or 47 Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934 Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover) Not bound Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO