Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Euclid

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948056223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779348960
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4805622

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

A.H. 502 (1108-1109)

Place

Egypt, Iraq, or Syria

Summary

One gathering, perhaps partial, from an abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements, written on paper.

Notes

• Ms. gathering.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Layout

Script

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics, Greek

Genres

• Fragments
• Abridgements
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Arabic--12th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

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