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Title

Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥikmah.
كتاب ميزان الحكمة

Authors

• Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1121
  خازني، عبد الرحمن،

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 386
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948249193503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/792895897
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4824919

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1250?-1350?

Summary

Substantial sections from an illustrated treatise on the measurement of weight, with a historical introduction to theories of gravity and weighing in Greek and Arabic science; tables of densities of substances including metals, precious stones, solids, and liquids; and descriptions of different types of balances. 26 diagrams and 18 tables with a few marginal notes. A few catchwords have been added by later hands. Damage to edges of many leaves.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from table of contents (p. 16, 17).
   

Extent

98 leaves : 195 x 160 (145 x 110) mm

Foliation

Paper, 98 leaves; [3-18, 37-38, 43-78, 83-94, 97-188, 191-192, 231-232, 235-240, 243-244, 247-248, 261-276, 285-292]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Unbound, with some partial gatherings still joined or repaired at gutter.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Decoration

26 diagrams and 18 tables in red and black ink; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed, with headings in larger tawqīʻ.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 22 (2000), to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Balances (Weighing instruments)--Early works to 1800
• Scales (Weighing instruments)--Early works to 1800
• Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800
• Mechanics--Early works to 1800
• Balances (Weighing instruments)
• Scales (Weighing instruments)

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--13th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Gatherings (gathered matter components)
• Detached leaves
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Early works
• Codices

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