زيج جديد سلطانى

St John's College MS 91

زيج جديد سلطانى

An Arabic translation of Ulugh Beg’s astronomical and chronological tables (zīj) in the second, or revised, version. The copy is imperfect.

زيج جديد سلطانى

Zīj-i jadīd-i sulṭānī

St John's College MS 91

Ulugh Beg ibn Shāhrukh ibn Tīmūr Gurgān (d. 853H/1449)

Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696

Laud, William, 1573-1645

Greaves, John, 1602-1652

Latin

Arabic

English

20 Ṣafar 939H (21 September 1532)

Paper

Main text in Arabic naskh; notes in several other Arabic and Persian hands in addition to three European hands: Greaves, Bernard and unidentified.

94 leaves, two endleaves and two front flyleaves, blank except for the St John’s College bookplate (i–ii + 1–94 + iii–iv).

The manuscript came to St John's College through the donation of Archbishop William Laud (d. 1645). Prior to that it was in the collection of Edward Bernard (d. 1696), the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, who had acquired it from the collection of John Greaves via the intermediary of one Mr Stubs.

Description abbreviated from Emilie Savage-Smith, A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), Entry No. 6, pp. 26-30.

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