[Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis].
[اختصار للمقالات من كتاب اقليدس].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Euclid.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Elements. Arabic

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Geometry--Early works to 1800.

Geometry.

Mathematics, Greek.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

abridgements

diagrams

treatises

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 1995, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Physical Description:

93 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 188 x 100 (145 x 60) mm bound to 192 x 105 mm

Place of Publication:

[Egypt, Iraq, or Syria], A.H. 502 (1108-1109)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

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:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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.

Layout: Written in 15 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah with approximately 8 mm. between lines, a standard measurement for manuscripts written in Egypt.

Script: Written in naskh in dark brown ink; partially pointed.

Decoration: Illustrated throughout with small geometric diagrams in red ink; rubrications including headings and overlines in red.

Binding: Contemporary morocco blind-stamped with a knotted rope medallion on both covers, rebacked; leather doublure.

Origin: Written in Fatimid Egypt, Iraq, or Syria, between A.H. Jumādá al-Ūlá and Ramaḍān 502 (Dec. 1108-April 1109), (f. 24v, 49r).

Owner's notes in Persian (f. 1r).

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Related Collections:

LJS 460 comprises 8 additional leaves from this manuscript.

Cited in:

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

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 37.

OCLC:

779181608

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page