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[Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis]. = [اختصار للمقالات من كتاب اقليدس].

Author/Creator:
Euclid.
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
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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