Bound with two other works as Persian MSS 218 and Arabic suppl. 558., Calligraphic naskhi, in red and black., Persian lacquer binding over wooden boards, with astronomical diagrams on outside of covers; a movable pointer seems to have been attached to the diagram on the front cover, but is now missing., Purchased from A.R. Gardiner on the Beinecke Fund, 1957., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, Treatise on the calendar, composed in A.H. 1259 [A.D. 1843]., and Unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso.
Hafiz al-Uqayli, Abd al-Athim ibn Abd al-Karim Karim ibn Ibrahim., creator
Published / Created:
[1855]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 218
Image Count:
4
Description:
Bound with two other works as Persian MSS 218 and Arabic MSS suppl. 558., Copied in A.H. Zi-Qadah [i.e. Zu al-Qadah] 1271 [A.D. 1855] by Abd al-Athim ibn Abd al-Karim Hafiz al-Uqayli., Fair nastaliq, in red and black., Leaf 19 blank, except for border., Persian lacquer binding over wooden boards, with astronomical diagrams on outside of covers; a movable pointer seems to have been attached to the diagram on the front cover, but is now missing., Purchased from A.R. Gardiner on the Beinecke Fund, 1957., Tables of the calendar., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and Unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso.