
Date of this Version
8-16-2015
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Keywords
Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Commentaries, Diagrams, Tables (documents), Manuscripts Persian--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance
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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


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.