Details

Subject(s)

• Geometry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mathematics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Summary note

A didactic poem on surveying and measuring areas including triangles, quadrilaterals and circles.

Notes

• Binding: Later morocco over pasteboard binding with flap (Type II) that is too large for the textblock; blind tooled with a central mandorla and double frame, spine repaired; inscriptions inside front cover; text and tables visible on inside back cover.
• Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 7 + i (modern paper).
• Decoration: Small marginal geometric diagrams (f. 2v-6v); diagram annotations in red ink.
• Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in dry point.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Item is undated, possibly copied in Spain in the 14th or 15th century.
• Script: Written in small, neat maghribi in brown ink; pointed.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 37 (LJS 465).

Cite as

LJS 465.

OCLC

852991445

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