Zīj al-sulṭānī
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- Country
- United Kingdom
- City
- London
- Institution
- British Library
- Repository
- St. Pancras
- Collection
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Shelfmark
- Add. 16742
Contents
- Zīj al-sulṭānī (Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449)
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- Author
- Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449
- الغ بگ
- Show other names
- Uluğ Bey, d. 1449
- Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 (authorised)
- Ulugbek, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Ulugh Beg ibn Shāhrukh, Mīrzā, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Ulugh Beg Mahommed ben Shah Rok, Mirza, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Uluḡ Beg, Mehmet Turgay, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Ulugh Beigh, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Oloug-Beg, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Ulug Beigius, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Ulughbek, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Ulugbek, Mukhammad Taragaĭ, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Ulughbek, Mirzo, 1394-1449 (variant)
- Mirzo Ulughbek, 1394-1449 (variant)
- UluğBay, 1394-1449 (variant)
- ألوغ بك (variant)
- ألوغ بيك (variant)
- الغ بيك (variant)
- الغ بگ (variant)
- Title
- Zīj al-sulṭānī
- زیج السلطانی
- Notes
- The astronomical tables of Mīrzā Ulugh Beg
- The observations embodied in the tables were commenced, as the author states in the preface, by his master, the Bursa (Turkey) born Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Mūsā, called also Qāz̤īʹzādah Rūmī and by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd. The latter, however, having died in the early stage of the work, and the former before its conclusion, it was carried on and completed with the assistance of a youthful astronomer, ‘Ali b. Muḥammad Ḳushjī, d. 1474 or 5 (Ali Kuşcu). This Kuşcu settled in Istanbul after the conquest of the city by Mehmed II, 1432-1481
- Main language of text
- Persian
- Bibliography
- Editions
- Beg, Ulugh. الزيج السلطاني، زيج اولوغ بيك : التقويم الرسمي المنسوب الى اولوغ بيك محمد طرغاي ابن شاهرخ التيموري (796- 853( / al-Zīj al-Sulṭānī, Zīj Ulūgh Bīk : al-taqwīm al-rasmī al-mansūb ilá Ulūgh Bīk Muḥammad Ṭurghayy ibn Shāhrakh al-Taymūrī (796-853). Chicago, IL: The Open School, 2007.
- Beg, Ulugh. Ulugh Beg's catalogue of stars, rev. from all Persian manuscripts existing in Great Britain, with a vocabulary of Persian and Arabic words. Edited by Knobel, E. B.. Washington, DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917.
- Catalogue
- Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum, 1879-1883, 455-6.
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- 158 ff
- Dimensions of folio
- width 15.2cm, height 23.5cm
- Columns
- 1
- Ruled lines
- 19
- Decoration
- Gold-ruled margin
- ‘unwān
History
- Date of copy
- Probably 16th century