Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

One gathering, perhaps partial, from an abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements, written on paper.

Notes

• Collation: Paper, 8 ; 1⁸.
• Decoration: Illustrated throughout with small geometric diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red including headings and overlines.
• Layout: Written in 15 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah with approximately 8 mm. between lines, a standard measurement for manuscripts written in Egypt.
• Ms. gathering.
• Origin: From a parent manuscript (LJS 37) written in Fatimid Egypt, Iraq, or Syria, dated between A.H. Jumādá al-Ūlá and Ramaḍān 502 (Dec. 1108-April 1109).
• Script: Written in naskh in dark brown ink; partially pointed.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Location of other archival materials

The parent manuscript of this gathering is LJS 37.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
• From a parent manuscript (LJS 37) that was in Persia in the 18th century.
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
• LJS 460 sold at auction at Christie's, 17 Oct. 2003, lot 407, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages (LJS 460).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 460.

OCLC

779348960

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