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[Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr)].

Author/Creator:
Ibn Luyūn al-Tujībī, Saʻd ibn Aḥmad, 1282 or 1283-1349 or 1350.
ابن ليون التجيبي، سعد بن احمد، 1282 أو 1283-1349 أو 1350.
Publication:
[Spain?], [13--?-14--?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
7 leaves : paper ; 198 x 142 (144 x 95) mm bound to 202 x 159 mm
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