Kitāb al-ukar
Contributors: Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912, translator; Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʻAlī, scribe; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1895
Place of publication: [Tabriz?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Geometry; History; Early works to 1800; Sphere; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: De sphaericis
Description: On spheres and their geometrical qualities. Copied in a lined copybook with 14 blank leaves at the end. Further note in Persian about the copy by the scribe at the end of the text (f. 27r).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Layout: 18 long lines on ruled paper.

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

Decoration: Rubrications in red; numerous diagrams (nearly every page).

Origin: The copy was finished in Rajab 1312 AH by Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Tabrīzī.

Shelfmark: MS Or 287.

Colophon gives month of copying as Rajab.

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Arabic.

Formerly owned by Kitābkhānah-i Tarbiyat in Tabriz, Iran (Owner's stamp dated 1898, f. 1r).

Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).

Bound in black leather over card with blind tooled frame. Cover from 1311 (1893) printed copy of Tuḥfat al-amthāl, printed in Istanbul, used as pastedown.

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