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

Title

Kitāb al-ukar.
كتاب الاكر

Authors

• Theodosius, active 1st century B.C
  ثاوذوسيوس

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
• Aḥmad ibn al-Muʻtaṣim, commissioning body
  احمد بن المعتصم.
• Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912, translator
  قسطا بن لوقا,
• Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901, editor
  ثابت بن قرة الحراني,

Call number

MS Or 25
(New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13540641
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1054926635
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_025.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13540641

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1850 and 1899?

Place

India?

Summary

On spheres and their geometrical qualities.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (Flyleaf 1v).
   

Extent

38 foliated leaves : 218 x 125 (120 x 65) mm, bound to 210 x 130 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Multiple quires with no evidence of sewing, held in wrapper of purple pebble-grained cloth over card. Wrapper is not the correct size for the leaves, suggesting it was re-used from another binding.

Layout

17 long lines; frame-ruled.

Decoration

Some rubrications. Numerous geometrical figures in red and black, some incomplete.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Arab countries--History
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Artificial grains
• Re-used (materials)
• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Diagrams

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Diagram
• fol. 1v — Diagram
• fol. 2r — Diagram
• fol. 2v — Diagram
• fol. 3r — Diagram
• fol. 3v — Diagram
• fol. 4r — Diagram
• fol. 4v — Diagram
• fol. 5r — Diagram
• fol. 5v — Diagram
• fol. 6r — Diagram
• fol. 6v — Diagram
• fol. 7r — Diagram
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 8v — Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram
• fol. 9v — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 10v — Diagram
• fol. 11v — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagram
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 15v — Diagram
• fol. 16v — Diagram
• fol. 17v — Diagram
• fol. 18r — Diagram
• fol. 19r — Diagram
• Unnumbered recto — Diagram
• Unnumbered verso — Diagram
• fol. 21v — Diagram
• fol. 22r — Diagram
• fol. 23r — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 24v — Diagram
• fol. 25v — Diagram
• fol. 26v — Diagram
• fol. 28r — Diagram
• fol. 28v — Diagram
• fol. 29v — Diagram
• fol. 30r — Diagram
• fol. 31r — Diagram
• fol. 32r — Diagram
• fol. 32v — Diagram
• fol. 33v — Diagram
• fol. 35r — Diagram