OPenn: LJS 466 Treatise on longitude and latitude ... etc.
LJS 466 Treatise on longitude and latitude ... etc.
Treatise on longitude and latitude ... etc.
Written in Persia, ca. 1447 (one item in manuscript dated A.H. 853).
Persian treatise on longitude and latitude (f. 1v-83r?), followed by a collection of smaller astronomical and geographical works, including an Arabic astronomical work titled Letaifu'l kelam (f. 96v-101r) and dated A.H. 853 (1447) with diagrams of the celestial spheres; and a table of longitudes and latitudes of places in the Eastern Mediterranean and Islamic world (f. 101v-103r). 2 notes with diagrams similar to those at the end of the treatise (f. 82r, 83r) and with calculations are laid in the manuscript.
Paper, i + 103 + i; 1-95, [96-103], later foliation in ink, upper left recto, end of manuscript (f. 96-103) not foliated.
Leather with ebruli (Turkish marbled) paper.
Written in 15 (f. 1v-95r) and 19-20 (f. 96v-100v) long lines.
7 astronomical diagrams (f. 97r-101r) in red and black ink; 2 of another type of diagram in red and black ink (f. 82r, 83r); tables in red and black ink (f. 83v-84v, 101v-103r); overlining and significant words and phrases in red.
Written in nastaʻlīq script by at least 2 hands (f. 1v-95r, 96v-103r).
Possible ownership stamps and inscriptions (f. 1r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
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