Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ḥafīrat al-taʼsīs min taʼlīf al-Qass Alīʻāzar.
حفيرة التأسيس من تأليف القس اليعازر

Other related names

• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner
• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, donor

Call number

MS Or 309
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14634254
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1144982169
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_309.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14634254

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

15--?-16--?

Summary

A Euclidean geometry text with a number of diagrams, including three dimensional drawings.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Brown leather over pasteboard; blind-tooled design of inset rectangles with frame rule.
   

Extent

73 leaves : 152 x 106 (114 x 66) mm, bound to 155 x 112 mm

Support

Paper

Layout

15 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red ink; red dots punctuate text; numerous diagrams, some three-dimensional.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   

Subjects topical

• Euclid--Elements
• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Arab countries--History
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Ḥafīrat al-taʼsīs min taʼlīf al-Qass Alīʻāzar.

Decorations

• fol. 6r — Diagrams
• fol. 6v — Diagrams
• fol. 7r — Diagrams
• fol. 7v — Diagrams
• fol. 8r — Diagrams
• fol. 8v — Diagrams
• fol. 9r — Diagrams
• fol. 9v — Diagrams
• fol. 10r — Diagrams
• fol. 10v — Diagrams
• fol. 11r — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• Insert 1 recto — Diagrams
• Insert 1 verso — Diagrams
• fol. 17v — Diagram
• fol. 18r — Diagrams
• fol. 20r — Diagram
• fol. 20v — Diagrams
• fol. 21r — Diagrams
• Insert 2 recto — Diagrams
• Insert 2 verso — Diagrams
• fol. 26r — Diagrams
• fol. 31r — Diagram
• fol. 32r — Diagram
• Insert 3 recto — Diagrams
• Insert 3 verso — Diagrams
• fol. 42r — Diagrams
• fol. 42v — Diagrams
• fol. 43r — Diagrams
• Insert 4 recto — Diagrams
• Insert 4 verso — Diagrams
• fol. 54v — Diagrams
• fol. 55r — Diagram
• fol. 56r — Diagrams
• fol. 56v — Diagrams
• fol. 57r — Diagrams
• fol. 57v — Diagram
• fol. 58r — Diagrams
• fol. 58v — Diagrams
• fol. 59r — Diagrams
• fol. 59v — Diagrams
• fol. 60r — Diagrams
• fol. 60v — Diagrams
• fol. 61r — Diagram
• fol. 61v — Diagrams
• fol. 62r — Diagram