Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 541H

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DS ID:

DS28833

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 541H

Title:

Bayān al-ḥikmah / بىان الحکمة

Author:

Khāṭirī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad

Date:

1200-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Note:

Fols. 32; 16.8 x 11.5 cm.; written surface 13.7 x 8 cm.; 16 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; entries in red.
A work on geometry compiled from the Elements of Euclid, who flourished B.C. 323-285, the Almagest of Ptolemy d. after A.D. 161, and the Method of Archimedes b. ca. B.C. 287 and d. B.C. 212.
Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي کملنا بعقل الفعال
Colophon: ونختم الرسالة بهذا الباب والله اعلم واحکم بالحقىقة
Ruled marginal lines in red. Writing parallel to back of binding. Attached to MS are 44 folios containing a treatise on magic dealing with the properties of the ring of Ṣāliḥ, and another on numbers and their squares, both in Persian and copied A.H. 609 [A.D. 1212]. MS is old and belongs probably to the first half of the XIIIth century. In fair condition; very rare.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Thirteenth century

Manuscripts, Persian

Islamic magic

Early works

Geometry

Euclid's Elements

Mathematics, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963575833506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cd986b34-7c0c-4dc0-8bfa-84df1188fa27/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University