[Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis]. = [اختصار للمقالات من كتاب اقليدس].
- Publication:
- [Egypt, Iraq, or Syria], A.H. 502 (1108-1109)
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
93 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 188 x 100 (145 x 60) mm bound to 192 x 105 mm - Online:
- Video orientation
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- Standardized Title:
- Elements. Arabic
- Subjects:
- Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Mathematics, Greek. - Form/Genre:
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
Abridgements.
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, Medieval. - Language:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Incomplete abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements, written on paper. The first 6 leaves (f. i-5) are replacements, written on different paper in a later hand. The replacement title page gives the incorrect title Taḥrīr Uqlīdis kāmil (Complete edition of Euclid, usually used to refer to the version edited by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which this is not).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i (endleaf)+6 (18th-century paper?)+87+i (endleaf) ; 1² 2⁴ 3-5¹⁰ 6¹⁴ 7⁶ 8¹⁴(-1) 9¹⁶ 10⁶ 11² ; [i, 1-92]; quire marks on upper left margin recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
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.
Binding: Contemporary morocco blind-stamped with a knotted rope medallion on both covers, rebacked; leather doublure.
Origin: Written in Fatimid Egypt, Iraq, or Syria, between A.H. Jumādá al-Ūlá and Ramaḍān 502 (Dec. 1108-April 1109), (f. 24v, 49r).
Owner's notes in Persian (f. 1r). - Local notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 1995, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. - Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 35 (LJS 37).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 37.
- Contributor:
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 779181608
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page