Details

Standardized Title:

Elements. Arabic. Selections.

Subjects:

Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Mathematics, Greek.

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions)
Abridgements.
Treatises.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

One gathering, perhaps partial, from an abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements, written on paper.

Notes:

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).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

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.

Related Collections:

The parent manuscript of this gathering is LJS 37.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. (LJS 460).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 460.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

779347172

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page