al-Sufi's Star Atlas - Manuscripts

Manuscripts of al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars

Due to its great popularity, a large number of manuscripts of al-Ṣūfī’s star atlas have been preserved which are currently dispersed over various libraries in the Middle East, Europe and North America. The following tables list the currently known manuscripts in chronological order.

Arabic Manuscripts
Persian Manuscripts
Latin Manuscripts

A. Arabic Manuscripts

The earliest manuscripts (to 700 H)
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & references
Rabī‘ I 519 H [April 1125] Baghdād	Doha, Museum of Islamic Art MS.2.1998.SO [= ms. MI-02098-80]	Copied by ‘Alī ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl ibn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad from a 1036 AD manuscript copied by Hibatallāh ibn Bishr al-Sham‘ī, which in turn was copied from a manuscript of al-Ṣūfī’s assistant Faraj ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Habashī; the sections on Cygnus, Cassiopeia, Perseus, Aries and Taurus are replacements from the Ottoman period; King et al (1998); Turkmani (2012) 67 & 72-73; Savage-Smith (2013).
519 H [1125/26] Mārdīn	Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library Ms. Fatih 3422 [ISMI link / WIID link]	Copied by ‘Abdallāh ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn al-Raḥīm ibn Ṣādaqa ibn ‘Alī ibn Yūsuf ibn Nassām al-Jabalī; Krause (1936) 463 [dates manuscript to 529 H]; Holter (1937) A.3; Destombes (1959) 309.
10 Ṣafar 525 H [12 January 1131] Mosul	Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Ms. Ahmet III 3493 [ISMI link / WIID link]	148 fols.; copied by Wāthiq ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar ibn al-Ḥusayn; former owners were Sālih ibn Yūnus ibn ‘Azīz al-Mutatabbib, the Mosul physician Mas‘ūd ibn ‘Abdalmalik ibn Salāma ibn al-Fadl al-Hanbalī, Abū-l-Fadl ibn Muzaffar ibn Abī Nasr al-Isrā’īlī and others; incomplete [Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Draco, Corvus, Centaurus & Lupus missing; Triangulum inserted at the end of Hydra]; Krause (1936) 463; Holter (1937) A.2.
566 H [1170/71] Mosul	Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Huntington 212 [= Uri 899] [ISMI link / Bodleian Digital link]	174 fols.; dedicated to Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī II, the Zangid Atabeg of Mosul (ruled 1169-1180); Uri (1787) 195 [dates manuscript to 966 H]; Holter (1937) A.h.
c. 575 H [late 12th cent.]	Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Marsh 144 [= Uri 926 = Arch. o. d. 10] [ISMI link / WIID link / Bodleian Digital link]	209 fols.; claimed to be copied by al-Ṣūfī‘s son al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad in 400 H [1009/10] – recent research indicates that the colophon is a later addition; the manuscript was acquired in 1641 in Istanbul by Christian Ravius (1613-1677) who probably had the missing pages (the first eleven folios) replaced, later it was in the possession of Jacob Golius (1596-1667) and it was acquired in 1696 by Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713); Uri (1787) 201; Holter (1937) A.1.bis; Wellesz (1959, 1965); Sezgin (1986); Brend (1994); Soudavar (1999); Carey (2001); Dekker (2013) 291-307; Savage-Smith (2013); the sections on Cancer and Leo are inserted between Scorpius and Sagittarius.
c. 600 H [c. 1203]	Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. or. qu. 704 [= Ahlwardt 5659] [ISMI link / SBB link / ECHO link]	Incomplete and bound in disorder; Ahlwardt (1893) 146; Hauber (1918); Holter (1937) A.5.
621 H [1224/25] Ceuta	Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Ms. Rossiano 1033 [fols. 1r-103v] [ISMI link / WIID link]	Incomplete [Cassiopeia, Sagitta & Lupus missing]; bound with Abū ‘Alī ibn al-Ṣūfī’s Rajaz fī Ṣuwar al-Kawākib [fols. 105v-120r]; Levi Della Vida (1935) 280; Fontana (1998) 34-35, 44 & 92; Piemontese (2009) 277 & 296-298 [nr. 24].
Dhū ’l-Qa‘da 630 H [August/September 1233] Mosul	Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. Landberg 71 [= Ahlwardt 5658] [ISMI link / SBB link / ECHO link]	Nearly complete [first page missing]; copied from a manuscript dated 404 H [1013/14]; Ahlwardt (1893) 145-146; Hauber (1918); Holter (1937) A.4; Sievernich & Budde (1989) 651-652.
mid 13th cent. Ceuta(?)	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Arabe 2488 [= Ancien fonds 1111] [ISMI link / GALLICA link]	De Slane (1883/95) 441; Holter (1937) A.8.
665 H [1266/67] Syria(?)	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Arabe 2489/1 [= Ancien fonds 1113] [ISMI link / GALLICA link]	De Slane (1883/95) 441-442; Holter (1937) A.9.
c. 1260-1280 Marāghā(?)	London, British Library Ms. Or. 5323 [ISMI link / WIID link / Qatar Digital Library link]	86 fols.; incomplete [start of the preface missing, missing constellation figures: Corona Borealis, Hercules, Virgo & Pisces]; Martin (1912), plates 35-39; Holter (1937) A.7; Carey (2001, 2007).
c. 700 H [c. 1300]	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Mīqāt 390 [ISMI link]	Incomplete; King (1986) 41.
Manuscripts from 700 H to 900 H
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & references
early 14th cent. Aleppo(?)	Tehrān, Muze-yi Melli Ms. 3777
703 H [1303/04] Aleppo	Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Pococke 257 [= Uri 916] [ISMI link]	210 fols.; Uri (1787) 199; Holter (1937) A.1.bis.
14th cent.(?)	Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Huntington 273 [= Uri 984] [ISMI link]	32 fols. bound in disorder; incomplete [containing only Eridanus, Libra, Lepus, Auriga, Virgo, Capricornus, Sagitta & Leo]; Uri (1787) 215.
15 Jumādā II 765 H [20 March 1364]	Escorial, Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Ms. I 915 [ISMI link]	Casiri (1760) 360; Holter (1937) A.a.
c. 800 H [c. 1397]	Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. Sprenger 1855 [= Ahlwardt 5660] [ISMI link / ECHO link]	Incomplete [only three crudely drawn constellation figures: Pegasus, Andromeda & Triangulum]; Ahlwardt (1893) 146-147; Hauber (1918); Holter (1937) A.b.
c. 1400 Samarkand(?)	New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Ms. Rogers Fund, 1913 [= Acc. 13.160.10] [MMA link]	Incomplete; Upton (1933); Holter (1937) A.d; Carboni (1997) 38-39.
c. 1430-1440 Samarkand	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Arabe 5036 [ISMI link / WIID link/ GALLICA link]	From the library of Ulugh Bēgh; Blochet (1914/20) 276-277 [plates XXX-XXXIII]; Blochet (1925) 51; Blochet (1926); Holter (1937) A.c; Caiozzo (1992).
mid-15th cent. Iran	Copenhagen, Christian Ludvig David Museum Inv. nr. 37/2006
899 H [1493/94] India	Rampur, Raza Library Ms. 3699 [= Acc. 595M]	Incomplete [Corona Borealis, Hercules, Lyra, Triangulum and Corona Australis are missing]; ‘Arshī (1975) 5: 46-47; Schmitz & Desai (2006) 82-83.
Manuscripts from 900 H to 1100 H
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & references
14 Rabī‘ I 906 H [8 October 1500]	Bologna, Biblioteca Universita Ms. 2953 [= Marsigli 422] [ISMI link]	Copied from a manuscript dated Dhū ’l-Qa‘da 589 H [October/November 1193]; Rozen (1885) 94-95; Holter (1937) A.g.
910 H [1504/05]	Dublin, Chester Beatty Library Ms. Arabic 4119 [ISMI link]	Arberry (1960).
922 H [1516/17]	Istanbul, Arkeolojik Müze Ms. 1578
922 H [1516/17]	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Arabe 2490 [= Ancien fonds 1110] [ISMI link / GALLICA link]	De Slane (1883/95) 442; Holter (1937) A.e.
16th cent. Istanbul(?)	St. Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Studies Ms. C.724 [= Arabskaya novaya seriya 185] [ISMI link]	Copied from a manuscript of which the first part (fols. 1r-44v) was copied in Cairo in 402 H [1011/12] and the second part (fols. 45r-75v) was copied from a manuscript dated to 396 H [1005/06]; from the library of Taqī al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Rashīd ibn Ma‘rūf al-Misrī (1526-1585); with 17 added woodcut-printed pages from a 16th-cent. edition of the Poeticon Astronomicon of Gaius Julius Hyginus; Rozen (1877) 118-119; Holter (1937) A.1; Petrosian et al (1995).
16th cent. Iran	Dublin, Chester Beatty Library Ms. Arabic 4222 [ISMI link]	Arberry (1962).
16th cent.	London, British Library Ms. Add. 7488 [ISMI link]	Rich (1846) 393; Holter (1937) A.f.
16th cent.	Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library Ms. Pertev Paşa (Selimiye) 375 [ISMI link]	Krause (1936) 463.
16th cent.	Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Ms. Revan 1655
16th cent.	Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Ms. Revan 1656
c. 1600	Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum
1008 H [1600/01]	Tehrān, Malek Library
3 Dhū ’l-Hijja 1010 H [25 May 1602] Medina	Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek Ms. Arab. 83 [ISMI link / KBD link]	Copied by Muḥammad al-Maghribī from a copy dated 404 H [1013/14) claimed to be based on al-Ṣūfī’s own copy; acquired in 1763 by Peter Forsskål (1732-1763) or Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815); Westergaard & von Mehren (1846/57) 2: 67-68; Schjellerup (1874); Holter (1937) A.l; Perho (2007) 1: 290-294.
11 Jumādā II 1015 H [14 October 1606] Nayin (near Isfāhān)	St. Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Studies Ms. Arabskaya novaya seriya 191 [ISMI link]	Copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad [surname erased]; Dorn (1865) 48, 62 & 77; Schjellerup (1874); Holter (1937) A.q.
4 Ramaḍān 1015 H [3 January 1607]	Princeton, University Library Ms. Garrett (Yahuda section) 2259 [ISMI link / Princeton Library link]	No star tables; one image of each constellation; owned by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad in Jumādā I 1114 H [September/October 1702].
early 17th cent.	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Arabe 2492 [= Supplément 964 bis] [ISMI link / GALLICA link]	De Slane (1883/95) 442; Holter (1937) A.w.
1053 H [1643/44] India(?)	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Arabe 6528 [ISMI link / GALLICA link]	Blochet (1925) 288-289; Holter (1937) A.n.
mid 17th cent. Isfahān(?)	Toronto, Aga Khan Museum Ms. 9 [= AKM00266] [ISMI link / Aga Khan Museum link]	Arabic text with Persian translation filling the margins; from the Imperial Mughal Library of Shāh Jahān I (1592-1665); the title page bears the seals of Aurangzeb (1618-1707), dated 1103 H [1691/92], and Bahadur Shah I (1643-1712), dated 1123 H [1711/12]; in some places the folio-order is shuffled; Seyller (1997) 304.
1070 H [1659/60]	Istanbul, Nuruosmaniye Library Ms. 2928/1 [ISMI link]	Lacks constellation images; Krause (1936) 463.
12 Ramaḍān 1074 H [9 April 1664]	London, British Library Ms. Or. 1407	Transliterations of Latin constellation names added; Rieu (1894) 755; Holter (1937) A.o.
17th cent.	Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Ms. Revan 1657
17th cent.	London, British Library Ms. India Office Islamic 2389 [= Loth 732] [ISMI link]	Loth (1877) 1: 212; Holter (1937) A.t.
17th cent.	London, British Library Ms.India Office Islamic 621 [= Loth 731] [ISMI link]	Loth (1877) 1: 212; Holter (1937) A.u.
17th cent.	Tehrān, Majles Library Ms. 197
17th cent.	Tehrān, University Library Ms. 1757
17th cent.	Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket Ms. 325 [= Nova 3]	Acquired by Matthias Norberg (1747-1826) during his 1777/81 travels in the Orient; Tornberg (1843/46) 222; Holter (1937) A.s.
late 17th cent. Iran	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Arabe 4670 [= Supplément arabe 2512] [GALLICA link]	Blochet (1925) 2; Holter (1937) A.p.
Later manuscripts (after 1100 H)
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & references
1123 H [1711/12]	Istanbul, Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi Ms. Veliyyüddin Efendi 2278 [ISMI link]	Krause (1936) 463 [‘wertlos’].
1130 H [1717/18]	Mosul, Muhammadiya Madrasa (al-Zaywānī Mosque) Ms. 127
c. 1730 south or central Asia	Washington, Library of Congress Ms. SM 16 [ISMI link / World Digital Library link]	Copied from a manuscript copied for Ulugh Beg, dated 1 Muḥarram 820 H [18 February 1417].
1150 H [1737/38] Egypt(?)	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Taymūr riyāḍa 241 [ISMI link]	Copied from a manuscript dated 948 H [1541/42].
c. 1159 H [c. 1746/47]	Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek Ms. Or. 11527	Lacking most of the constellation figures; Witkam (2007) 123.
1183 H [1769/70] Iran	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Arabe 2491 [= Supplément arabe 964] [ISMI link / GALLICA link]	De Slane (1883/95) 442; Holter (1937) A.v.
1200 H [1785/86] Egypt(?)	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Mīqāt 831,2 [fols. 16v-135v] [ISMI link]	King (1986) 41.
1786/89	Princeton, University Library Ms. Garrett 211 Yahuda
18th cent.	Tehrān, Majles Library Ms. 6091
18th cent. India	Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Universitaire Ms. 4300	Wickersheimer (1923) xlvii & 761; Buchthal et al (1940).
1312 SH [1933]	Tehrān, Majles Library Ms. 198
Other manuscripts of unknown date
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & references
	Beirut, St. Joseph University Ms. 198 [ISMI link]
	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Mīqāt 417 [ISMI link]
	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Mīqāt 904 [ISMI link]
	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Mīqāt 1094 [ISMI link]
	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Ṭalʿat mīqāt 258 [ISMI link]
	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Taymūr riyāḍa 288 [ISMI link]
	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Taymūr riyāḍa 325/2 [ISMI link]	Star tables only.
	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Taymūr riyāḍa 352 [ISMI link]
	Hyderabad, Āsafīya Library
	Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library Ms. Lālā İsmail Efendi 318	Mirzazâde Salim Efendi (??-1743), Tercüme-i Tarih-i Aynî (???)
	Mosul, Madrasa of the al-Bāshā Mosque Ms. 343
	Princeton, University Library Ms. 1984
	St. Petersburg, Shdanov Univ. Biblioteka Ms. Oriental Department 669 [ISMI link]
	Tunis, University Library Ms. Zaytūna 366 [ISMI link]
	Tunis, University Library Ms. Zaytūna 2843

B. Persian Manuscripts

Persian translation by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
25 Dhū ’l-Qa‘da 647 H [1 April 1250] Alamut(?)	Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library Ms. Aya Sofya 2595 [WIID link]	Later owned by Ahmad ibn Unways and Ulugh Beg; Krause (1936) 498; Holter (1937) A.6.
903 H [1497/98] Yazd	Dublin, Chester Beatty Library Ms. Persian 175	Arberry (1959/62) 2: 34-35.
late 16th cent.	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Persan 773 [= Supplément persan 1551] [GALLICA link]	Blochet (1912) 47-49; Holter (1937) A.i.
1039 H [1629/30]	Kuwait, Jasim al-Homaizi Collection Ms. Louisiana Revy Cat. No. 241
1063 H [1652/53] Iran(?)	Mašhad, ??? Ms. 23
1086 H [1675/76]	Tehrān, Majles Library Ms. 196
last decade 17th cent.	Dublin, Chester Beatty Library Ms. Persian 263	Incomplete (22 fols. only); Arberry (1959/62) 3: 37.
Persian translation by Luṭfallah al-Muhandis ibn Aḥmad-i al-Mi‘mār al-Lāhūrī
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
late 16th cent. Lahore(?)	Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. 332/3 [= Sprenger 1854] [SBB link]	Pertsch (1888) 332/3; Holter (1937) A.r.
late 16th cent. Lahore(?)	Aligarh, Muslim University Library Ms. Univ. 31
late 16th cent. Lahore(?)	Rampur, Raza Library Ms. 1164
Persian translation by Ḥasan ibn Sa‘d al-Qā’inī, for ‘Abū’l-Fatḥ Manūchihr Khān (d. 1636), governor-general of Mašhad
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
1040-42 H [1630/33] Mašhad(?)	New York, New York Public Library Ms. Spencer Pers. 6 [NYPL link]	Grube (1962) ???; Welch (1973) ???; Schmitz (1992) ???; Brentjes (2014).
1043 H [1633/34] Mašhad(?)	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Mustafā Fādil mīqāt fārisī 9	Edwards (1982) ???; Kunitzsch (1983); Gingerich (1986); King (1986) 41 & 165; Schmitz (1992) ???; Bibliotheca Alexandrina (2006).
Abridged Persian version by an unknown author
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
mid 17th cent. Iran(?)	New York, New York Public Library Ms. Spencer Pers. 25	Schmitz (1992).
Some later Persian manuscripts
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
1050 H [1640/41]	Cairo, Dār al-Kutub Ms. Ahmad Musa 25	Holter (1937) A.m.
late 17th cent. Iran	Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum ROM 971.292.13	Brentjes (2010)
c. 1690	Dublin, Chester Beatty Library Ms. Persian 263	Incomplete; Arberry (1962) 3: 37.
18th cent. Iran	New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Ms. 1975.192.2 [MMA link]
late 18th cent.	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Persan 2370 [= Supplément persan 2021]	Blochet (1934) 303-304.

C. Latin Manuscripts

Translated into Latin by an unknown scribe for William II of Sicily (1155-1189). Although the stellar longitudes are the same as those in al-Ṣūfī’s star catalogue, various epochs such as 272 H (equivalent with AD 885/886) or 325 H (equivalent with 936/937) are mentioned at the head of the stellar tables.

Group I
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
c. 1270 Bologna	Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal Ms. Latin 1036 [fols. 1r-49r] [GALLICA link / WIID link / PAL link]	Martin (1886) 247-248; Saxl & Meier (1953) 1: xxxii, xliv-xlv, l-lii & lxxi; Kunitzsch (1965, 1986); Gousset (1984); Lippincott (1985); Sievernich & Budde (1989) 113-115 & 651; Orofino (1995); Dekker (2013) 339.
Group II: North-Italian scriptorium
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
mid 14th cent.	Prague, Památník Národního Písemnictví Ms. Strahoviensis D.A. II. 13 [fols. 1r-48v] [WIID link / local pdf link]	Fischer (1964); Kunitzsch (1965, 1986); Lippincott (1985)
late 14th cent.	Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett Ms. 78 D 12 [= Hamilton 556] [WIID link]	Wescher (1931) 80-83; Fischer (1964); Boese (1966) 273; Kunitzsch (1986); Lippincott (1985); Sievernich & Budde (1989) 116 & 651.
late 14th cent.	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Ms. Clm 826 [fols. 34r-41v] [BSB link / WIID link]	Astrological codex of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361-1419); incomplete [Ursa Minor to Pegasus only]; stellar longitudes and magnitudes missing; Boll (1903) 420-424; Zinner (1925) 2502a; Fischer (1964); Kunitzsch (1965, 1968); Lippincott (1985); Sievernich & Budde (1989) 145.
1428	Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Ms. Memb. II 141	Acquired in 1798 from Duke Ernst II of Saxonia-Gotha-Altenburg; probably the manuscript cited by Ismael Boulliau (1667); Strohmaier (1984); Kunitzsch (1986).
Group III
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
14/15th cent.	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms. Latin 7280 [fols. 83r-100r] [GALLICA link]	No constellation figures; Gousset (1984). With an additional column of stellar longitudes for 1406.
15th cent.	Catania, Biblioteca Comunale Ms. 85 [fols. 7r-19v] [WIID link]	Fava (1897) 432-435; Kunitzsch (1965, 1986); Lippincott (1985).
15th cent.	Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Ms. Lat. 5318 [fols. 2r-36v] [WIID link]	Zinner (1925) 7373 & 11267; Saxl (1927) 19-20 & 132-141; Saxl & Meier (1953) 1: xlviii; Kunitzsch (1965, 1986); Lippincott (1985).
Group IV
date / place	library / manuscript	notes & literature
1301-1334	Kues, Stiftsbibliothek St. Nikolaus Hospital Ms. 207 [fols. 116va-121vb + 124va-135rb] [WIID link]	Acquired by Nicolas of Cusa in 1444; Marx (1905) 193-195; Hartmann (1919) 48-49; Beyerle (1922); Zinner (1925) 2335; Werner (1961); Krchňák (1963); Volkelt (1964); Fischer (1964); Kunitzsch (1965, 1986); Lippincott (1985); Ackermann (2009) 94-95 & 488-491; Dekker (2013) 353-356.

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