Kitāb al-ukar
Contributors: Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912, translator; Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901, editor; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1800
Place of publication: 18--?
Language: ara
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Geometry; Early works to 1800; History; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: De sphaericis
Description: On spheres and their geometrical qualities.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Layout: Written in 17 long lines; border-ruled.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink.

Decoration: Textblock is border-ruled in gold; rubrications in red; numerous geometrical digrams in red; simple headpiece (f. 1v).

Origin: The item is undated; perhaps produced in the first half of the 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 28.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).

Bound in purple pebble-grained cloth over card; plain paper doublure.

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