University of Pennsylvania, LJS 37

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS632

Shelfmark:

LJS 37

Title:

Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis.

Author:

Euclid

Euclid WIKIDATA

Place:

Egypt, Iraq, or Syria

Egypt TGN

Date:

A.H. 502 (1108-1109)

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 93 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 188 x 100 (145 x 60) mm bound to 192 x 105 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Contemporary morocco blind-stamped with a knotted rope medallion on both covers, rebacked; leather doublure.
Ms. codex.
Owner's notes in Persian (f. 1r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i (endleaf)+6 (18th-century paper?)+87+i (endleaf) ; 1² 2⁴ 3-5¹⁰ 6¹⁴ 7⁶ 8¹⁴(-1) 9¹⁶ 10⁶ 11² ; [i, 1-92]; quire marks on upper left margin recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah with approximately 8 mm. between lines, a standard measurement for manuscripts written in Egypt.
Script: Written in naskh in dark brown ink; partially pointed.
Decoration: Illustrated throughout with small geometric diagrams in red ink; rubrications including headings and overlines in red.
Origin: Written in Fatimid Egypt, Iraq, or Syria, between A.H. Jumādá al-Ūlá and Ramaḍān 502 (Dec. 1108-April 1109), (f. 24v, 49r).
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 1995, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

diagrams

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

abridgements

Manuscripts, Medieval

Early works

Geometry

Mathematics, Greek

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948054933503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3jh3d34h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania