Kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah
By: Ūṭūlūqus
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901, editor; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1830
Language: ara
Subjects: Geometry; History; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: De sphaera quae movetur
Description: Arabic translation of Autolycus' treatise on moving spheres.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 17 long lines.

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

Decoration: Headings and 9 geometrical figures in red (f. 2r/v, 3v-4v, 5v-7r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 44.

Origin: Likely copied in the mid- to late-19th century; machine-made paper.

Digital version available with no restrictions Unrestricted online access.

Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2018. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Arabic.

Sewn on single tape support, covered with purple pebble-grained cloth over card.

Digitized. 2018 Columbia University Libraries committed to preserve