<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Zīj-i Gūrgānī : manuscript</dc:title><dc:title>زىج گورگانى : مخطوطة</dc:title><dc:creator>Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449</dc:creator><dc:date>1779 or 1780.</dc:date><dc:language>ara</dc:language><dc:language>ota</dc:language><dc:description>Zīj (astronomical tables) of Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 (a Persian astronomer), in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, presented to the Sultan ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Khān ibn Aḥmad Khān (Abdülhamid I Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789), in 1193 Hijrī (1779 or 1780). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned</dc:description><dc:description>In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.</dc:description><dc:description>Title from folio 1a.</dc:description><dc:description>Romanization supplied by cataloger.</dc:description><dc:description>Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī khalaqa al-arḍ wa-al-samāwāt wa-zayyanahā bi-al-kawākib al-thawābit wa-al-sayyārāt wa-qaddara manāzil li-yuʻlama bi-hā ʻadad al-sinīn wa-ḥisāb al-awqāt, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Rasūlihi Muḥammad ṣāḥib al-muʻjizāt wa-muẓhir al-ḥikam wa-al-āyāt wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-muqīmīn bi-aḥsan al-taqwīm wa-al-aḥkām al-bayyināt ..."</dc:description><dc:description>Secundo folio: Ulugh Bik ribāṭ.</dc:description><dc:description>17 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 16.5 cm; lines per page vary.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: Unbound.</dc:description><dc:description>In small naskh script, in black ink on white paper, headings and markings in red; some notes on the margins; some wormholes.</dc:description><dc:description>Colophon: Colophon missing.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>