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

Title

Kitāb al-ukar.
كتاب الأكر

Authors

• Theodosius, active 1st century B.C

Other related names

• Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912, translator
  قسطا بن لوقا،
• Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʻAlī, scribe
  تبريزي، محمد علي.
• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 287
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13720580
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085517296
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_287.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13720580

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1895

Place

Tabriz?

Summary

On spheres and their geometrical qualities. Copied in a lined copybook with 14 blank leaves at the end. Further note in Persian about the copy by the scribe at the end of the text (f. 27r).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   
• Colophon gives month of copying as Rajab.
   

Extent

46 leaves : 206 x 130 (160 x 72) mm, bound to 207 x 139 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in black leather over card with blind tooled frame. Cover from 1311 (1893) printed copy of Tuḥfat al-amthāl, printed in Istanbul, used as pastedown.

Layout

18 long lines on ruled paper

Decoration

Rubrications in red; numerous diagrams (nearly every page).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Colophon

Colophon gives month of copying as Rajab.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by Kitābkhānah-i Tarbiyat in Tabriz, Iran (Owner's stamp dated 1898, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kitāb al-ukar.

Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"
• fol. 1r — Owner's stamp: Kitābkhānah-i Tarbiyat, 1898
• fol. 2r — Diagram
• fol. 2v — Diagram
• fol. 2v — Diagram
• fol. 3r — Diagram
• fol. 3r — Diagram
• fol. 3v — Diagram
• fol. 3v — Diagram
• fol. 4r — Diagram
• fol. 4r — Diagram
• fol. 4v — Diagram
• fol. 4v — Diagram
• fol. 5r — Diagram
• fol. 5r — Diagram
• fol. 5v — Diagram
• fol. 5v — Diagram
• fol. 5v — Diagram
• fol. 6r — Diagram
• fol. 6r — Diagram
• fol. 6v — Diagram
• fol. 6v — Diagram
• fol. 7r — Diagram
• fol. 7r — Diagram
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 8v — Diagram
• fol. 8v — Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram
• fol. 9v — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 10v — Diagram
• fol. 11r — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 13r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagram
• fol. 14r — Diagram
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 15r — Diagram
• fol. 15v — Diagram
• fol. 17r — Diagram
• fol. 17v — Diagram
• fol. 18r — Diagram
• fol. 18v — Diagram
• fol. 19r — Diagram
• fol. 19v — Diagram
• fol. 20v — Diagram
• fol. 21r — Diagram
• fol. 22r — Diagram
• fol. 22v — Diagram
• fol. 23r — Diagram
• fol. 23r — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 24r — Diagram
• fol. 24v — Diagram
• fol. 25r — Diagram
• fol. 25v — Diagram
• fol. 25v — Diagram
• fol. 26r — Diagram
• fol. 27r — Diagram
• fol. 27r — Diagram
• fol. 27v — Owner's notations
• fol. 28r — Diagram
• fol. 28r — Diagram