Jāmiʻ al-qawāʻid fī al-misāḥah
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Geodesy
Other titles: Fann al-thālith min kitāb jāmiʻ al-qawāʻid fī ʻilm al-misāhah
Description: The text deals with the precise measurement of the size and shape of the earth, mapping points on the earth's surface, and the study of the earth's gravitational fields.  The manuscript includes only three chapters on the third topic.  On the last page is a note written in a different script about measuring with different kinds of cubits.
Notes: Ms.

Transcribed by Muḥammad ʻAyyād.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks (tre lune; initials FC), in good condition.  Text in black ink with rubricated titles; title page in blue ink in a later hand.  Some marginal notes in various hands.  Catchwords on rectos.  Modern numbering incorrect (skips a leaf between 15 and 16).

On leaves 4a, 10b, and 14a are notes comparing this manuscript with the original [?].

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-749.

Naskhī script; 19 lines in written area, 15 x 9 cm.

Illustrations and figures.

Fol. 1a-18b.

Binding:  modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.