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Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥikmah.
كتاب ميزان الحكمة.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 386
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1121.
- Standardized Title:
- Mīzān al-ḥikmah. Selections
- ميزان الحكمة. Selections
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- gatherings (gathered matter components)
- detached leaves
- treatises
- diagrams
- tables (documents)
- Early works.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 98 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 195 x 160 (145 x 110) mm
- Other Title:
- Book of the balance of wisdom.
- Place of Publication:
- [1250?-1350?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 114-115 (LJS 386).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 386.
- OCLC:
- 792895897
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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