[Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr)]

Name:

Ibn Luyūn al-Tujībī, Saʻd ibn Aḥmad, 1282 or 1283-1349 or 1350

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1300

Description:

A didactic poem on surveying and measuring areas including triangles, quadrilaterals and circles.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs465.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000469

Subject:

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics; Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Geometry

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Medieval; Codices (bound manuscripts); Diagrams; Treatises; Early works; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

7 leaves : paper; 198 x 142 (144 x 95) mm bound to 202 x 159 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 7 + i (modern paper).; Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in dry point.; Script: Written in small, neat maghribi in brown ink; pointed.; Decoration: Small marginal geometric diagrams (f. 2v-6v); diagram annotations in red ink.; Binding: Later morocco over pasteboard binding with flap (Type II) that is too large for the textblock; blind tooled with a central mandorla and double frame, spine repaired; inscriptions inside front cover; text and tables visible on inside back cover.; Origin: Item is undated, possibly copied in Spain in the 14th or 15th century.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 465

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)