University of Pennsylvania, LJS 460

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS697

Shelfmark:

LJS 460

Title:

Gathering from 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: 8 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 188 x 100 (145 x 60) mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: From a parent manuscript (LJS 37) written in Fatimid Egypt, Iraq, or Syria, between A.H. Jumādá al-Ūlá and Ramaḍān 502 (Dec. 1108-April 1109).
Decoration: Illustrated throughout with small geometric diagrams in red ink; rubrications including headings and overlines in red.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 8 ; 1⁸.
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.
Ms. gathering.
LJS 460 sold at auction at Christie's, 17 Oct. 2003, lot 407, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
From a parent manuscript (LJS 37) that was in Persia in the 18th century.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

diagrams

treatises

fragments (object portions)

Manuscripts, Arabic

abridgements

Manuscripts, Medieval

Early works

Geometry

Mathematics, Greek

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948056223503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34d24/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania