Description of Columbia University MS Or 45: Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 45: Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. 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 45: Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb.. 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 added title (f. 1r). Former shelfmark: Smith Or 45 (Smith Oriental MS 45). Autograph of the Mamlūk Arghūn (f. 143v). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 45 14257415 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112074758 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_045.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14257415 Collection of treatises, copied in the same hand, on mathematical sciences. Topics include calculating heights, distances, areas, solving geometrical and algebraic problems, music theory. At the back of the work are three additions: 1) pages of notes, probably by the copyist, about some of the works in the collection (f. 129r-137v), 2) an added commentary on Apollonius' Conics copied in a different hand (f. 139v-143r), 3) further notes. One folio in Persian (f. 71) is misplaced and should follow folio 78. Arabic with one work in Persian (number 8) Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. في الفلك والهندسة والحساب Menelaus, of Alexandria Ṭūsī, al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad, active 12th century طوسي، المظفر بن محمد، Alhazen, 965-1039 ابن الهيثم، Archimedes Aristarchus, of Samos Nasawī, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, -1039 نسوي، علي بن احمد، Omar Khayyam عمر خيام Ṣābiʼ, Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century صابئ، جابر بن ابراهيم، Ṣābiʼ, Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century صابئ، جابر بن ابراهيم، Sanjarī, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century-11th century سنجري، احمد بن ابراهيم Sijzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1084 or 1085 سجزي، احمد بن محمد، Alhazen, 965-1039 ابن الهيثم، Fārābī فارابي Ibn al-Surá, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1153 ابن السرى، احمد بن محمد، scribe Taqī al-Dīn Naṣr تقي الدين نصر autographer Arghūn, Mamlūk ارغون، former owner Naʻīm نعيم، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v Kitāb [Manālāwus] fī al-kurīyāt 15v ʻAn murabbaʻ mutasāwwī al-aḍlāʻ 18v Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifāʻ al-quṭb 24r Ashkāl nāfiʻa fī kitāb Arkhimīdis 25r Fī masāḥat al-dāʼirah 30v Kitāb Arisṭākhus fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-abʻādihimā 49r Kitāb al-lāmiʻ fī amthāl al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ 76v Risālat al-tazyīn fī ḥisāb jadwal al-thalāthīn 81v Maqālah fī al-jabar wa-al-maqābalah 109v Īḍāḥ al-burhān ʻalá ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼayn 111v Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Īḍāḥ al-burhān ʻalá ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼayn 113r Muqaddimah li-ṣināʻat ālah tuʻraf bi-hā al-abʻād 115v Fī amr al-khaṭṭayn 121v Fī maʻrifat irtifāʻ al-ashkhāṣ al-qāʼimah. 122v None 125r Min kalām Abī al-Futūḥ ibn al-Sarī 129r [Notes] 139v [Commentary on Apollonius] 144r [Notes]

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 146 leaves : 240 x 167 mm, bound to 240 x 160 mm Chiefly 19 lines per page; some marginalia. Written in naskh in brown ink; partially pointed. Rubrications in red; numerous geometrical diagrams in red and brown. Description of the manuscript, page 2 Description of the manuscript, page 1 Table of contents Partial stamp Owner's note Diagrams Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Diagrams Notations Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagrams

Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard; sides completely covered with blind tooled geometrical design made of intersecting straight lines with 12-pointed start at the center; blind tooled frame.

The item is not dated, but was likely produced in the 13th or 14th century based on the paper and writing. A section that was probably copied later is signed Taqī al-Dīn Naṣr al-Ḥanafī (f. 143r).

12--?-13--? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Formerly owned by Naʻīm (stamp and note, f. 1r). Apollonius,--of Perga--Conics Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800 Geometry--Arab countries--Early works to 1800 Algebra--Early works to 1800 Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800 Music theory--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Compilation manuscripts Manuscripts (documents) Diagrams Blind tooled (decoration) Annotations (Provenance) Stamps (Provenance) Notes (documents)