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An Illustrated Astronomical Treatise by Mahmud ibn Muhammad al-Jaghmini

MSS 1164 | Ayathulugh (Ayasoluk), Anatolia | dated 17 Jumada al-awwal 785 (18 July 1383)

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Title: An Illustrated Astronomical Treatise by Mahmud ibn Muhammad al-Jaghmini

Date: dated 17 Jumada al-awwal 785 (18 July 1383)

Location: Ayathulugh (Ayasoluk), Anatolia

Materials: ink and opaque watercolour on paper; blind-tooled leather binding with flap

Dimensions: 29 folios; 18.4 x 13.8cm

Accession Number: MSS 1164

Other Notes:

This compendium of astronomy, entitled al-Mulakhkhas fi al-Hay’ah, was composed by Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Umar al-Jaghmini one year before the author died during the Mongol conquest of Khwarazm in 1221 AD. The work, which is in Arabic,  comprises an introduction on simple and complicated bodies and celestial spheres, followed by two books, the first on astronomy and the second on geography, trigonometry and astrology.

According to the colophon (folio 29b), the scribe Qutb al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Nakidi copied the manuscript in Ayathulugh (Ayasoluk in modern Turkish spelling). This is probably the earliest manuscript written and illustrated in Ayasoluk and implies the existence of a scriptorium in an area that, in 1383, had only recently come under Turkish control.

Script:

copied in naskh script; 15 lines to the page; with 25 coloured diagrams

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