Description of Columbia University. MS Or 287: Kitāb al-ukar.

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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).

Arabic Kitāb al-ukar. كتاب الأكر Theodosius, active 1st century B.C translator Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912 قسطا بن لوقا، scribe Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʻAlī تبريزي، محمد علي. former owner Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936 Colophon gives month of copying as Rajab. 1v Kitāb al-ukar.

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46 leaves : 206 x 130 (160 x 72) mm, bound to 207 x 139 mm 18 long lines on ruled paper Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized. Rubrications in red; numerous diagrams (nearly every page). Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton" Owner's stamp: Kitābkhānah-i Tarbiyat, 1898 Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Owner's notations Diagram Diagram

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.

The copy was finished in Rajab 1312 AH by Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Tabrīzī.

1895 Tabriz? 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). Geometry--Arab countries--History Geometry--Early works to 1800 Sphere--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Codices Diagrams Manuscripts Stamps (Provenance) Blind tooled (decoration)