Description of Columbia University MS Or 44: Kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah /Columbia UniversityThese images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 44: Kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah / are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 44: Kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah /. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.Manuscript codex.Title from introduction (f. 1v).New York, NY. 10027Columbia UniversityRare Book and Manuscript LibraryMS Or 44http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055768579http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_044.htmlhttps://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554103Arabic translation of Autolycus' treatise on moving spheres.ArabicKitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah /كتاب الكرة المتحركةAutolycus, active 2nd centuryformer ownerSmith, David Eugene, 1860-1944editorThābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901ثابت بن قرة الحراني,1vKitāb al-kurrah al-mutaḥarrikah
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7 unpaginated leaves : 205 x 127 (160 x 60) mm, bound to 210 x 125 mmModern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left.17 long lines.Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.Headings and 9 geometrical figures in red (f. 2r/v, 3v-4v, 5v-7r).DiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagram
Sewn on single tape support, covered with purple pebble-grained cloth over card.
Likely copied in the mid- to late-19th century; machine-made paper.
between 1830 and 1899?Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.Geometry--Arab countries--HistoryManuscripts, ArabicManuscriptsCodicesDiagramsArtificial grains