University of Pennsylvania, LJS 460

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DS ID:

DS697

Shelfmark:

LJS 460

Title:

Gathering from Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis

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

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. gathering.
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.
Decoration: Illustrated throughout with small geometric diagrams in red ink; rubrications including headings and overlines in red.
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).
From a parent manuscript (LJS 37) that was in Persia in the 18th century.
LJS 460 sold at auction at Christie's, 17 Oct. 2003, lot 407, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

fragments (object portions)

diagrams

treatises

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Arabic

abridgements

Geometry

Early works

Mathematics, Greek

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948056223503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34d24/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania