Kitāb al-ukar
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Aḥmad ibn al-Muʻtaṣim, commissioning body; Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912, translator; Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901, editor; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1850
Place of publication: India?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Geometry; History; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Sphaerics.
Work titles: De sphaericis
Description: On spheres and their geometrical qualities.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (Flyleaf 1v).

Layout: 17 long lines; frame-ruled.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Some rubrications. Numerous geometrical figures in red and black, some incomplete.

Origin: Likely copied in the mid- to late-19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 25.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2018. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Multiple quires with no evidence of sewing, held in wrapper of purple pebble-grained cloth over card. Wrapper is not the correct size for the leaves, suggesting it was re-used from another binding.

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