[Gathering from Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis]
- Description
- One gathering, perhaps partial, from an abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements, written on paper.
- Creator
- Euclid
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- fragments (object portions)
- abridgements
- treatises
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Arabic
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Date
- 1108
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Geometry -- Early works to 1800
- Geometry
- Mathematics, Greek
- Collection
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 8 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 188 x 100 (145 x 60) mm
- 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).
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Arabic.
- Related works
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
- Video orientation
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 460 (shelved with LJS 37)
- 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.
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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