[Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr)].
- Publication:
- [Spain?], [13--?-14--?]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
7 leaves : paper ; 198 x 142 (144 x 95) mm bound to 202 x 159 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3fs33Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs465.htmlVideo orientation
https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000469 - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry. - Form/Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Early works. - Language:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- A didactic poem on surveying and measuring areas including triangles, quadrilaterals and circles.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 7 + i (modern paper).
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in dry point.
Script: Written in small, neat maghribi in brown ink; pointed.
Decoration: Small marginal geometric diagrams (f. 2v-6v); diagram annotations in red ink.
Binding: Later morocco over pasteboard binding with flap (Type II) that is too large for the textblock; blind tooled with a central mandorla and double frame, spine repaired; inscriptions inside front cover; text and tables visible on inside back cover.
Origin: Item is undated, possibly copied in Spain in the 14th or 15th century. - Local notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 37 (LJS 465).
- Cited as:
- Upenn LJS 465.
- Contributor:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- OCLC:
- 852991445
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page