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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>119 foliated leaves + 5 : 207 x 150 (160 x 85) mm, bound to 210 x 160 mm</dd>
<dd>Set of works on mathematics and astronomy copied together in what appears to be the same hand. The second work has a supercommentary copied in the margins. Several leaves of calculations and notations tipped or laid in; two tipped in pages have been foliated along with the leaves (f. 26, 33). Also includes one page in Ottoman Turkish (f.94v)</dd>
<dd>Manuscript codex</dd>
<dd>Title for set from introduction to second work</dd>
<dd>1. f. 1v-20v: Kitāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb / Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ibn Maḥfūẓ -- 2. f. 21v-86v: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ / Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qāḍīʹzādah -- 3. f. 21v-86v margins: [Ḥāshiyat al-Birjandī ʻalá Sharḥ Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī ʻalá al-Mulakhkhaṣ] / ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī -- 4. f. 89v-94r: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Baḥth al-shaʻīrāt fī Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ] / Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-ʻImādī -- 5. f. 97v-119v: Sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs / Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qāḍīʹzādah</dd>
<dd>Layout: 21-25 lines; some leaves with extensive marginalia on three sides</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Rubrications in red including terms, overlining, diagrams. Numerous geometrical diagrams throughout</dd>
<dd>Origin: Copied in Turkey, parts of the manuscript are dated from Ṣafar 1081 AH (f. 86v) to Ramaḍān 1082 AH (f. 119v)</dd>
<dd>Quarter covers of paper over pasteboard with faint, green design visible; brown leather spine; back cover partially detached; endbands in red and yellow</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 307</dd>
<dd>Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936</dd>
<dd>Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover)</dd>
<dd>Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description</dd>
<dd>Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR</dd>
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<br>Subjects: Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah; Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436. Sharḥ al-Jighmīnī; Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century. Ashkāl al-taʼsīs; Euclid. Elements; Mathematics, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Arabic</div>
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