[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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