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

Title

Kitāb al-ukar.
كتاب الأكر

Authors

• Theodosius, active 1st century B.C
  ثاوذوسيوس،

Other related names

• Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912, translator
  قسطا بن لوقا،
• Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901, editor
  ثابت بن قرة الحراني،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 28
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14568274
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1137728634
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_028.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14568274

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Place

18--?

Summary

On spheres and their geometrical qualities.

Notes

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

Extent

Vii, 38, vii leaves : 197 x 124 (170 x 64) mm, bound to 201 x 125 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in purple pebble-grained cloth over card; plain paper doublure.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Textblock is border-ruled in gold; rubrications in red; numerous geometrical digrams in red; simple headpiece (f. 1v).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "David Eugene Smith"
• 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. 11r — Diagram
• fol. 11v — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 12v — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagram
• fol. 14r — Diagram
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 15r — Diagram
• fol. 15v — Diagram
• fol. 16v — Diagram
• fol. 17v — Diagram
• fol. 18v — Diagram
• fol. 19v — Diagram
• fol. 20r — Diagram
• fol. 21r — Diagram
• fol. 23r — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 24v — Diagram
• fol. 25r — Diagram
• fol. 26r — Diagram
• fol. 26v — Diagram
• fol. 27v — Diagram
• fol. 28v — Diagram
• fol. 29v — Diagram
• fol. 31r — Diagram
• fol. 31v — Diagram
• fol. 32v — Diagram
• fol. 33r — Diagram
• fol. 33v — Diagram
• fol. 34r — Diagram
• fol. 35r — Diagram
• fol. 35v — Diagram
• fol. 36v — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 38r — Diagram