A commentary on al-Tusi's astrolabe treatise

(Tusi, Nasir al-Din al-). Sharh-i bist bab dar marifat-i asturlab [Commentary on the twenty chapters on the knowledge of the astrolabe].

€ 15,000.00

A pretty Persian commentary on a treatise on the astrolabe by Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (1201-74), better known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. A famous polymath, al-Tusi was prominent enough that many commentaries were made of his astronomical and mathematical work such as this one, often by the likes of Nizam al-Din Hasan al-Nisaburi (d. 1328-29) and Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi (d. 1528). Al-Birjandi in fact completed his own commentary on al-Tusi's twenty chapters on the astrolabe, but this is not another copy of the latter, rather that of another author whose identity is unclear. It is an attractive copy, in handsome script on mulberry bark paper dyed a very pale blue.

Binding worn and rebacked with new spine; a few minor smudges, otherwise in good condition.