Details

Subject(s)

• Physics [Browse]
• Chemistry, Organic [Browse]
• Electricity [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of three treatises on physics and chemistry, likely culled from European sources.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 61b.
• On front cover: Label reading "274" in Arabic script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 14-19 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on machine-made paper. Some catchwords. Illustrated with diagrams and charts. Fol. 60b-61a, 94b-95b, 183b-184b blank. Light smudging and staining; in excellent condition.
• Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله ... اما بعد بدانکه اين کتاب مشتمل است بر ىک مقدمه و شش مقاله مقدمه در بىان بعضى از مطالبکه دانستن آنها قبل از معرفت اين علم لازم است
• Incipit (text 2): بدانکه اين چند کلماتى است در علم شىمى ارگنىک که مقدمات وى تفصىلاً در شىمى اين ارگنىک مذکور شد
• Incipit (text 3): الحمد لله ... اما بعد اين کتاب مشتمل است بر صد فصل فصل اول در قواعد اصلية الکترسىته

Binding note

Contemporary orange leather with blind-stamped and tooled fillets.

Contents

• 1. fol. ib-60a: [Treatise on physics]. Consists of a muqaddimah and six maqālah treating mechanics, thermodynamics, magnetism, electricity, gravitation, and acoustics.
• 2. fol. 61b-94a: Dar ʻilm-i shīmī urganīk.
• 3. fol. 96a-183a: [Treatise on electricity]. Consists of 100 faṣl.

Provenance

On fol. ia, owner's stamp of Riz̤ā, dated 1284 H [1867 or 8], and owner's stamp and note of Muḥammad Kāẓim.

OCLC

795241351

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