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Title

Facsimile of LJS 411, Sharḥ-i Zīj-i jadīd-i Sultānī

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

8-16-2015

Files

Comments

Commentary on the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sultānī, which comprised tables of calendar calculations, trigonometry, planets, and stars compiled from observations made at the observatory in Samarqand, completed in 1447. Includes some tables, marginal commentary attributed to Mullah Muẓaffar (f. 239v), 7 generally contemporary diagrams tipped in, and 1 diagram and 1 small note laid in.

Keywords

Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Commentaries, Diagrams, Tables (documents), Manuscripts Persian--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5113103

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs411.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 411, Sharḥ-i Zīj-i jadīd-i Sultānī" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 89.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/89