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The date of copying of the manuscript "Arabe 5036" of the work "Suwar al-Kawakib" is not indicated; it seems to have been copied for the library of Ulugbek around 1435 or shortly after.
The final colophon on one of the sheets indicates only “these figures (suwar) were completed for the library (khizana) of the very high sultan and sublime khaqan, master of the kings of the kingdoms of the Turks and Persian, sultan, son of sultan, son of sultan Zahir (...) al-Din Ulugbek Kuragan. May the Almighty God make his kingdom eternal (...)” and in the margin a note indicates that the original text copied by the copyist had a note in the hand of Nasir al-Din Tusi himself. It is evident that there is a link between this manuscript and the famous observatory built by order of Ulugbek in Samarkand between 1424 and 1429 in order to make astronomical observations. For that purpose he had around him a group of scholars like ‘Ala ad-Din ‘Ali Qushchi from Samarkand, Salah al-Din Musa Qazi-zada Rumi, as well as the mathematician and astronomer Jamshid al-Kashi, who was formerly in Isfahan until 1415 in charge of the observatory build by Iskandar Sultan.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Illustrated manuscripts from Mawarannahr in the collections of France" (Volume XXIX) in the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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