Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 45

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DS ID:

DS6601

Shelfmark:

MS Or 45

Title:

Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb

Scribe:

Taqī al-Dīn Naṣr / تقي الدين نصر

Taqī al-Dīn Naṣr al-Ḥanafī WIKIDATA

Date:

12--?-13--?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic with one work in Persian (number 8)

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 146 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 240 x 167 mm, bound to 240 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Naʻīm / نعيم،

Naʻīm WIKIDATA

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Layout: Chiefly 19 lines per page; some marginalia.
Script: Written in naskh in brown ink; partially pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red; numerous geometrical diagrams in red and brown.
Origin: The item is not dated, but was likely produced in the 13th or 14th century based on the paper and writing. A section that was probably copied later is signed Taqī al-Dīn Naṣr al-Ḥanafī (f. 143r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 45.
Former shelfmark: Smith Or 45 (Smith Oriental MS 45)
Autograph of the Mamlūk Arghūn (f. 143v).
Formerly owned by Naʻīm (stamp and note, f. 1r).

Keyword:

blind-tooled (decoration)

compilation manuscripts

Annotations

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

diagrams

Stamps

notes (documents)

Algebra

Geometry

Music theory

Islamic Empire

Manuscripts, Arabic

Conics (Apollonius, of Perga)

Mathematics, Arab

Manuscripts, Persian

Apollonius, of Perga. Conics

Astronomy, Arab

Arab countries

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642090

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642090_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library