Author
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
Publication Date
[1229 or 1230?]
Subject
Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800[Browse]Spherical trigonometry—Early works to 1800[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]Menelaus of Alexandria—Spherica[Browse]
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
83
Physical Dimensions
83 leaves : paper, ill. ; 193 x 85 (128 x 42) mm. bound to 192 x 98 mm.
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
64577390
Record ID
9946832623506421
Date
[1229 or 1230?]
Notes
Ms. codex.Title from opening rubric (fol. 3b).18 long lines per page. Written in a script tending to shikastah, using black ink and some red. Dark cream paper, glossy, with horizontal laid lines visible. The text is illustrated with numerous diagrams in black and red ink. Abundant marginalia; one leaf is damaged so that parts of the marginalia are lost (see fol. 42). Catchwords on the verso of each leaf.Text begins on fol. 3b.According to the colophon, copied in 627 H. (fol. 83b). Hitti suggests however a later date (15th cent.?).Incipit: اقول بعد حمد الله والثناء عليه ... اني كنت اريد ان احرر الكتب الموسومة بالمتوسطاتExplicit: قائم من زوية ا ه ب اصغر من قائم وكذلك زوية ه ا ب زذلك ما اردناه اقول فهذا الشكل ليس بمنسى على ما يتقدمه من هذا الكتاب - Dark-brown leather over paper pasteboard. There are gold-tooled frames on the upper and lower covers: a central rectangular frame formed of two lines and an outer frame formed of one border of gold stamped S-shapes forming a cablework pattern, with two gold lines on each side. Modern pastedowns and fly-leaves added. - Edition of the Spherics of Menelaos of Alexandria mentioning the editions by al-Māhānī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Saʻd al-Harawī and Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻIrāq.
Kaynak
Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
Referanslar
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1055Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 511/24Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 929/24Sezgin, F. GAS, V, 162-163
Edinme Kaynağı
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
