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Title

Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb.
في الفلك والهندسة والحساب

Authors

• Menelaus, of Alexandria
• Ṭūsī, al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad, active 12th century
  طوسي، المظفر بن محمد،
• Alhazen, 965-1039
  ابن الهيثم،
• Archimedes
• Aristarchus, of Samos
• Nasawī, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, -1039
  نسوي، علي بن احمد،
• Omar Khayyam
  عمر خيام
• Ṣābiʼ, Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century
  صابئ، جابر بن ابراهيم،
• Ṣābiʼ, Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century
  صابئ، جابر بن ابراهيم،
• Sanjarī, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century-11th century
  سنجري، احمد بن ابراهيم
• Sijzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1084 or 1085
  سجزي، احمد بن محمد،
• Alhazen, 965-1039
  ابن الهيثم،
• Fārābī
  فارابي
• Ibn al-Surá, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1153
  ابن السرى، احمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Taqī al-Dīn Naṣr, scribe
  تقي الدين نصر
• Arghūn, Mamlūk, autographer
  ارغون،
• Naʻīm, former owner
  نعيم،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 45
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14257415
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112074758
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_045.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14257415

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic with one work in Persian (number 8)

Origin

Date

12--?-13--?

Summary

Collection of treatises, copied in the same hand, on mathematical sciences. Topics include calculating heights, distances, areas, solving geometrical and algebraic problems, music theory. At the back of the work are three additions: 1) pages of notes, probably by the copyist, about some of the works in the collection (f. 129r-137v), 2) an added commentary on Apollonius' Conics copied in a different hand (f. 139v-143r), 3) further notes. One folio in Persian (f. 71) is misplaced and should follow folio 78.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   
• Former shelfmark: Smith Or 45 (Smith Oriental MS 45).
   
• Autograph of the Mamlūk Arghūn (f. 143v).
   

Extent

146 leaves : 240 x 167 mm, bound to 240 x 160 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard; sides completely covered with blind tooled geometrical design made of intersecting straight lines with 12-pointed start at the center; blind tooled frame.

Layout

Chiefly 19 lines per page; some marginalia.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; numerous geometrical diagrams in red and brown.

Script

Written in naskh in brown ink; partially pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by Naʻīm (stamp and note, f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Apollonius,--of Perga--Conics
• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Arab countries--Early works to 1800
• Algebra--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Music theory--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Compilation manuscripts
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Diagrams
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Notes (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kitāb [Manālāwus] fī al-kurīyāt
• fol. 15v — ʻAn murabbaʻ mutasāwwī al-aḍlāʻ
• fol. 18v — Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifāʻ al-quṭb
• fol. 24r — Ashkāl nāfiʻa fī kitāb Arkhimīdis
• fol. 25r — Fī masāḥat al-dāʼirah
• fol. 30v — Kitāb Arisṭākhus fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-abʻādihimā
• fol. 49r — Kitāb al-lāmiʻ fī amthāl al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ
• fol. 76v — Risālat al-tazyīn fī ḥisāb jadwal al-thalāthīn
• fol. 81v — Maqālah fī al-jabar wa-al-maqābalah
• fol. 109v — Īḍāḥ al-burhān ʻalá ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼayn
• fol. 111v — Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Īḍāḥ al-burhān ʻalá ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼayn
• fol. 113r — Muqaddimah li-ṣināʻat ālah tuʻraf bi-hā al-abʻād
• fol. 115v — Fī amr al-khaṭṭayn
• fol. 121v — Fī maʻrifat irtifāʻ al-ashkhāṣ al-qāʼimah.
• fol. 122v — None
• fol. 125r — Min kalām Abī al-Futūḥ ibn al-Sarī
• fol. 129r — [Notes]
• fol. 139v — [Commentary on Apollonius]
• fol. 144r — [Notes]

Decorations

• Inside front cover with pasted-on note — Description of the manuscript, page 2
• Insert i recto — Description of the manuscript, page 1
• fol. 1r — Table of contents
• fol. 1r — Partial stamp
• fol. 1r — Owner's note
• fol. 2r — Diagrams
• fol. 2v — Diagram
• fol. 3r — Diagrams
• fol. 3v — Diagrams
• fol. 4r — Diagrams
• fol. 4v — Diagrams
• fol. 5r — Diagrams
• fol. 5v — Diagrams
• fol. 6r — Diagrams
• fol. 6v — Diagrams
• fol. 7r — Diagrams
• fol. 7v — Diagrams
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 8v — Diagrams
• fol. 9r — Diagrams
• fol. 9v — Diagrams
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 10v — Diagram
• fol. 11r — Diagram
• fol. 11v — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 12v — Diagram
• fol. 13r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagrams
• fol. 14r — Diagrams
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 18r — Diagram
• fol. 22v — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 24v — Diagrams
• fol. 25r — Diagram
• fol. 25v — Diagrams
• fol. 26v — Diagrams
• fol. 27r — Diagram
• fol. 28r — Diagram
• fol. 30r — Diagram
• fol. 32r — Diagrams
• fol. 33r — Diagram
• fol. 35r — Diagram
• fol. 36r — Diagram
• fol. 38r — Diagram
• fol. 38v — Diagram
• fol. 39v — Diagram
• fol. 40r — Diagram
• fol. 41r — Diagram
• fol. 43r — Diagram
• fol. 44r — Diagram
• fol. 48v — Diagram
• fol. 85r — Diagrams
• fol. 85v — Diagram
• fol. 86r — Diagram
• fol. 86v — Diagrams
• fol. 87r — Diagram
• fol. 87v — Diagrams
• fol. 88r — Diagram
• fol. 88v — Diagrams
• fol. 89r — Diagrams
• fol. 89v — Diagram
• fol. 90r — Diagram
• fol. 90v — Diagram
• fol. 91r — Diagrams
• fol. 91v — Diagrams
• fol. 92v — Diagram
• fol. 93r — Diagram
• fol. 93v — Diagram
• fol. 94v — Diagrams
• fol. 95v — Diagram
• fol. 96v — Diagram
• fol. 97r — Diagram
• fol. 98r — Diagram
• fol. 100r — Diagram
• fol. 100v — Diagram
• fol. 101v — Diagram
• fol. 102r — Diagram
• fol. 102v — Diagram
• fol. 103r — Diagram
• fol. 104r — Diagram
• fol. 107r — Diagram
• fol. 107v — Diagram
• fol. 108r — Diagram
• fol. 110v — Diagram
• fol. 112v — Diagram
• fol. 117r — Diagram
• fol. 117v — Diagram
• fol. 118r — Diagram
• fol. 118v — Diagram
• fol. 121v — Diagram
• fol. 125r — Diagram
• fol. 125v — Diagram
• fol. 126v — Diagram
• fol. 127r — Diagrams
• fol. 127v — Diagram
• fol. 128r — Diagram
• fol. 129r — Diagrams
• fol. 129v — Diagrams
• fol. 130r — Diagrams
• fol. 131v — Diagrams
• fol. 132v — Diagrams
• fol. 133r — Diagrams
• fol. 133v — Diagram
• fol. 134r — Diagrams
• fol. 134v — Diagrams
• fol. 135r — Diagrams
• fol. 135v — Diagrams
• fol. 136r — Diagrams
• fol. 136v — Diagrams
• fol. 137r — Diagrams
• fol. 137v — Diagrams
• fol. 138v — Diagrams
• fol. 140r — Diagram
• fol. 140v — Diagrams
• fol. 141r — Diagrams
• fol. 141v — Diagrams
• fol. 142r — Diagrams
• fol. 142v — Diagrams
• fol. 143r — Diagrams
• fol. 143v — Notations
• fol. 144r — Diagrams
• fol. 144v — Diagram
• fol. 145r — Diagram
• fol. 145v — Diagrams
• fol. 146r — Diagram
• fol. 146v — Diagrams