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Title

Bayān al-ḥikmah.
بىان الحکمة

Authors

• Khāṭirī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad
• Ptolemy, active 2nd century
• Archimedes

Call number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 541H
(Princeton, Princeton University, Princeton University Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6357583
• http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/wm117s27v

Publisher

Princeton University

Notes

• Fols. 32; 16.8 x 11.5 cm.; written surface 13.7 x 8 cm.; 16 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; entries in red.
   
• A work on geometry compiled from the Elements of Euclid, who flourished B.C. 323-285, the Almagest of Ptolemy d. after A.D. 161, and the Method of Archimedes b. ca. B.C. 287 and d. B.C. 212.
   
• Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي کملنا بعقل الفعال
   
• Ruled marginal lines in red. Writing parallel to back of binding. Attached to MS are 44 folios containing a treatise on magic dealing with the properties of the ring of Ṣāliḥ, and another on numbers and their squares, both in Persian and copied A.H. 609 [A.D. 1212]. MS is old and belongs probably to the first half of the XIIIth century. In fair condition; very rare.
   
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
   

Colophon

Colophon: ونختم الرسالة بهذا الباب والله اعلم واحکم بالحقىقة

Subjects topical

• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Euclid's Elements--Early works to 1800
• Islamic magic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--13th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--13th century

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