Risale-yi Si fasl-i Nasirüddin Tusi - رسالۀ سی فصل نصیر الدین طوسی

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Scope and Content

This volume contains a translation by Ahmet el-Dai of Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī's Persian treatise on the computation of almanacs entitled Mukhtaṣar dar maᶜrifat-i taqvīm (مختصر در معرفت تقويم) and commonly referred to as Sī faṣl ('30 sections'). The treatise contains several diagrams and tables. This manuscript was completed on 17 Muharrem 1228 AH (20 January 1813 CE).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Library from D. Loman in November 1974.

Related Material

For more information on the Persian original and its author, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum II, pp. 452-53.