Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

Incomplete abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements, written on paper. The first 6 leaves (f. i-5) are replacements, written on different paper in a later hand. The replacement title page gives the incorrect title Taḥrīr Uqlīdis kāmil (Complete edition of Euclid), usually used to refer to the version edited by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which this is not.

Notes

• Binding: Contemporary morocco blind-stamped with a knotted rope medallion on both covers, rebacked.
• Collation: Paper, i (endleaf)+6 (18th-century paper?)+87+i (endleaf) ; 1² 2⁴ 3-5¹⁰ 6¹⁴ 7⁶ 8¹⁴( -1) 9¹⁶ 10⁶ 11² ; [i, 1-92]; quire marks on upper left margin recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
• 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. codex.
• Origin: Written in Fatimid Egypt, Iraq, or Syria, between A.H. Jumādá al-Ūlá and Ramaḍān 502 (Dec. 1108-April 1109), (f. 24v, 49r).
• Script: Written in naskh in dark brown ink; partially pointed.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Undated owner's notes in Persian (f. 1r).

Location of originals

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

Location of other archival materials

LJS 460 comprises 8 additional leaves from this manuscript.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London), June 1995, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 35 (LJS 37).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 37.

OCLC

779180778

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