Author
Khāzinī, Abd al-Rahman, active 1121.
Publication Date
1250
Publication Place
[1250?-1350?] -
Subject
Hydrostatics., Scales (Weighing instruments)., Balances (Weighing instruments)., Balances (Weighing instruments)--Early works to 1800., Scales (Weighing instruments)--Early works to 1800., Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800., Mechanics--Early works to 1800., Mechanics.
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
98 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 195 x 160 (145 x 110) mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
792895897
Record ID
9948249193503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1250
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from table of contents (p. 16, 17)., Pagination: Paper, 98 leaves; [3-18, 37-38, 43-78, 83-94, 97-188, 191-192, 231-232, 235-240, 243-244, 247-248, 261-276, 285-292]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners., Layout: Written in 15 long lines., Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed, with headings in larger tawqīʻ., Decoration: 26 diagrams and 18 tables in red and black ink; rubrications in red., Binding: Unbound, with some partial gatherings still joined or repaired at gutter., Origin: Item is undated, likely copied sometime between the last half of the 13th century and the first half of the 14th century. | Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative. | Arabic. | Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 22 (2000), to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Sample Text
Substantial sections from an illustrated treatise on the measurement of weight, with a historical introduction to theories of gravity and weighing in Greek and Arabic science; tables of densities of substances including metals, precious stones, solids, and liquids; and descriptions of different types of balances. 26 diagrams and 18 tables with a few marginal notes. A few catchwords have been added by later hands. Damage to edges of many leaves.
Atıf Şekli
UPenn LJS 386.
Atıf Yapılan
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 114-115 (LJS 386).
Tür
Manuscripts, Arabic., Manuscripts, Medieval., gatherings (gathered matter components), detached leaves, treatises, diagrams, tables (documents), Early works., codices (bound manuscripts)
