Label:St John's College MS 91
Description: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.
Title:زيج جديد سلطانى
Other Titles:Zīj-i jadīd-i sulṭānī
Shelfmark:St John's College MS 91
Author:Ulugh Beg ibn Shāhrukh ibn Tīmūr Gurgān (d. 853H/1449)
Former Owner:Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696, Laud, William, 1573-1645, Greaves, John, 1602-1652
Language:Latin, Arabic, English
Date Statement:20 Ṣafar 939H (21 September 1532)
Materials:Paper
Hand:Main text in Arabic naskh; notes in several other Arabic and Persian hands in addition to three European hands: Greaves, Bernard and unidentified.
Extent:94 leaves, two endleaves and two front flyleaves, blank except for the St John’s College bookplate (i–ii + 1–94 + iii–iv).
Provenance: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.
Record Origin: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.
Collection:Arabic Manuscripts and Maps
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