Description of Columbia University. MS Or 306: Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 306: Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt. 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 306: Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt.. 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 title page (f. 1r) and colophon of one work (f. 160r) Illegible stamp (f. 1r) along with several notes from readers and former owners (f. 1r). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 306 13848480 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097682681 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_306.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13848480 17 works, chiefly Arabic translations of Greek treatises and responses to them concerning geometry and astronomy, given a collective title that signifies that these works were to be read after Euclid's Elements in preparation for Ptolemy's Almagest (note on flyleaf 3r, at front of book). Four works (12, 13, 16, 17) are not translations, one (9) is qualified as revised by al-Kindī, one (16) is copied in a different style, and one (17) is on music. A table of contents is included (flyleaf 1 verso, at front of book), and the colophon of work 15 (f. 160v) says that Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt is complete before listing the next two works that will follow. Arabic Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt. كتاب المتوسطات Euclid Theodosius, active 1st century B.C Autolycus, active 2nd century Menelaus, of Alexandria Euclid Euclid Theodosius, active 1st century B.C Autolycus, active 2nd century Hypsicles, of Alexandria Aristarchus, of Samos Archimedes Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901 ثابت بن قرة الحراني، Ibn Shākir, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, -873 ابن شاكر، محمد بن موسى، Ibn Shākir, Aḥmad ibn Mūsá, -873 ابن شاكر، احمد بن موسى، Ibn Shākir, Ḥasan ibn Mūsá, active 9th century ابن شاكر، حسن بن موسى، Archimedes Archimedes Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294 ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف، translator Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، scribe Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Shadīd كازروني، محمد بن شديد. editor Nasawī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1241 or 1242 نسوي، محمد بن احمد، former owner Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá احمد بن مصطفى. borrower Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Ḥarīrīʹzādah محمد سعيد بن حريرى‌زاده. former owner Muḥammad ʻĀrif Bīr Miʻmārān محمد عارف بير معماران. former owner Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936 1v Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt. 1v Taḥrīr kitāb al-muʻṭīyāt / Uqlīdis 11v Kitāb al-ukar / Thāwudhūsīyus 25r Taḥrīr kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah / Awtūlūqūs 27v Taḥrīr kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah / Mānālāwus 65v Taḥrīr al-manāẓir / Uqlīdis 73r Kitāb ẓāhirat al-falak / Uqlīdis 83r Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-ayyām wa-al-layālī / Thāwudhūsīyus 92v Kitāb Awtūlūqūs fī al-ṭulūʻ wa-al-ghurūb / Awtūlūqūs 100v Kitāb Isqilawus fī al-maṭāliʻ mimmā aṣlaḥahu al-Kindī / Isqilawus 102r Kitāb Aristarkhus fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-buʻdayhimā / Aristarkhus 107v Taḥrīr kitāb al-maʼkhūdhāt / Arshimīdas 112r Taḥrīr kitāb al-mafrūḍāt / Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī 116r Kitāb maʻrifat masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kurīyah / Banī Mūsá Muḥammad wa-al-Ḥasan wa-Aḥmad 123r Kurah wa-al-usṭuwānah / Arshimīdas 159r Maqālat Arshimīdas fī taksīr al-dāʼirah / Arshimīdas 161r Risālah fī ʻamāl al-asṭurlāb / ḥarrarahā Muḥammad ibn Shadīd al-Ṭabīb al-Kāzarūnī 164r Kitāb al-adwār fī al-mūsīqá / ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī

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The third work is dated 663? A.H. (f. 64r) and the 16th work is dated 773 A.H. and was copied by Muḥammad ibn Shadīd al-Ṭabīb al-Kāzarūnī (f. 163v).

1265-1371? Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936. Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá; loaned to Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Ḥarīrīʹzādah (note f. 1r). Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻĀrif Bīr Miʻmārān (note f. 1r) Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside back cover). Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800 Astronomy, Greek--Early works to 1800 Astrolabes--Early works to 1800 Geometry--Early works to 1800 Music--Arab countries--500-1400--Early works to 1800 Optics--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Diagrams Manuscripts (documents) Stamps (Provenance)