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Metadata

DS ID:

DS632

Shelfmark:

LJS 37

Title:

Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis / اختصار للمقالات من كتاب اقليدس

Elements

Author:

Euclid

Euclid WIKIDATA

Place:

Egypt, Iraq, or Syria

Egypt TGN

Iraq TGN

Syria TGN

Date:

A.H. 502 (1108-1109)

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

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:

Ms. codex.
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.
Binding: Contemporary morocco blind-stamped with a knotted rope medallion on both covers, rebacked; leather doublure.
Origin: Written in Fatimid Egypt, Iraq, or Syria, between A.H. Jumādá al-Ūlá and Ramaḍān 502 (Dec. 1108-April 1109), (f. 24v, 49r).
Owner's notes in Persian (f. 1r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 1995, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

treatises

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Arabic

abridgements

Geometry

Early works

Mathematics, Greek

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948054933503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania