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

LJS 465 Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr).

Title

Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr).

Authors

Ibn Luyūn al-Tujībī, Saʻd ibn Aḥmad, 1282 or 1283-1349 or 1350
ابن ليون التجيبي، سعد بن احمد،

Call number

LJS 465
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9959781433503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/852991445
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5978143

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Item is undated, possibly copied in Spain in the 14th or 15th century.

Date: 13--?-14--?
Place: Spain?

Summary

A didactic poem on surveying and measuring areas including triangles, quadrilaterals and circles.

Notes

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Extent

7 leaves : 198 x 142 (144 x 95) mm. bound to 202 x 159 mm

Collation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 7 + i (modern paper).

Support

Paper

Binding

Later morocco over pasteboard binding with flap (Type II) that is too large for the textblock; blind tooled with a central mandorla and double frame, spine repaired; inscriptions inside front cover; text and tables visible on inside back cover.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines; ruled in dry point.

Decoration

Small marginal geometric diagrams (f. 2v-6v); diagram annotations in red ink.

Script

Written in small, neat maghribi in brown ink; pointed.

Provenance

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.

Subjects topical

Mathematics--Early works to 1800
Geometry--Early works to 1800
Geometry
Mathematics

Genres

Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams
Treatises
Early works

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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URL

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fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v

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Inside back cover
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