Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 105B

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DS ID:

DS28715

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 105B

Title:

Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwis fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah / تحرير كتاب مانالاوس في الاشكال الكرية

Author:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 / طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi WIKIDATA

Date:

1229 or 1230?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 83 leaves : paper, ill. ; 193 x 85 (128 x 42) mm. bound to 192 x 98 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (fol. 3b).
18 long lines per page. Written in a script tending to shikastah, using black ink and some red. Dark cream paper, glossy, with horizontal laid lines visible. The text is illustrated with numerous diagrams in black and red ink. Abundant marginalia; one leaf is damaged so that parts of the marginalia are lost (see fol. 42). Catchwords on the verso of each leaf.
Text begins on fol. 3b.
According to the colophon, copied in 627 H. (fol. 83b). Hitti suggests however a later date (15th cent.?).
Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Thirteenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Mathematics, Arab

Early works

Spherical trigonometry

Menelaus, of Alexandria. Spherica

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946832623506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9b37d37e-1dcf-4bb1-96e0-2882df61d062/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University