University of Pennsylvania, LJS 286

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DS ID:

DS604

Shelfmark:

LJS 286

Title:

Taḥrīr Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb.

Author:

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

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi WIKIDATA

Date:

A.H. 890 (1485)

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 213 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 170 x 87 (114 x 48) mm bound to 180 x 111 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Small geometric diagrams in red ink with black letters or black ink with red letters throughout.
Origin: Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Awwal A.H. 890 (April 1485).
Ms. codex.
Binding: Modern Western red leather rebinding, blind-stamped with gilt-stamped spine; spine title "Tahrir al-Iqlidis, Euclidis elementa geometrica, 1458".
Layout: Written in 18 long lines; marginalia.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 213 + i (modern paper); [1-213] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Title from introduction (f. 2v); other title from added note (f. 3r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), Dec. 1998, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Numerous ownership notes and seals, 15th century through 19th century.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

annotations

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Stamps (Provenance)

Annotations (Provenance)

diagrams

commentaries

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Arabic

Euclid. Elements

Mathematics, Greek

Geometry

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948188123503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3057ct0p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania