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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 20.399)

Cod.Or. 20.399

A miscellany This late 18th-century volume mostly contains a collection of, on the whole fragmentary, astronomical texts with calculations, drawings and tables, and is probably compiled by more than one copyist/draughtsman. Many pages have remained blank (lb-2a, 9a-27a, 32b-33b, 34b-35a, 43b, 53b-54a, 57a, 59b, 63b- 64a, 65a, 69a, 72b-74a, 81a-82b, 83b-90a, 91a-96b, 97b-98b). Pencil jottings and dates of the years 1193 (1779) and 1211 (1796-7), apparently related to (unspecified) family events, are found on the inner front-board and f. la. (1) ff. 2b-8b Terceme-i Risale-i sifas I J—ai **JLiij An incomplete treatise on the principles of astronomy (taqwim). The title is found in the heading preceding the text on f. 2b. The work breaks off in the fifteenth section (fast). (For a survey of the titles of all thirty sections, see Ertaylan’s study, pp. 151-2.) According to the brief introduction, it was a translation by Atoned ed-DaT (flourished in the 8th/14th century, cf. Fahir iz in Ef) of a treatise by Kh w aja Nasïr [ad-Dïn] Tüsï (d. 672/1274, cf. H. Daiber & F.J. Ragep in Ef). The essay is illustrated with circular drawings showing the revolving sphere of the heavens (4a), the constellations (4b, 6b, 7a), and the orbits of the sun and moon (5b). (For a complete copy of the text, see Cod.Or. 23.637(1), below.)

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Catalogue entry: Fihris 797 (I, pp. 203-4); see also Ertaylan’s study, p. 153.