Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt
Contributors: Theodosius, active 1st century B.C.; Autolycus, active 2nd century; Menelaus, of Alexandria; Theodosius, active 1st century B.C.; Autolycus, active 2nd century; Hypsicles, of Alexandria; Aristarchus, of Samos; Archimedes; Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901; Ibn Shākir, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, -873; Ibn Shākir, Aḥmad ibn Mūsá, -873; Ibn Shākir, Ḥasan ibn Mūsá, active 9th century; Archimedes; Archimedes; Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294; Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274, translator; Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Shadīd, scribe; Nasawī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1241 or 1242, editor; Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá, former owner; Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Ḥarīrīʹzādah, borrower; Muḥammad ʻĀrif Bīr Miʻmārān, former owner; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1265
Language: ara
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Greek Astronomy; Astrolabes; Geometry; Music; Optics; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Mutawassiṭāt.; Muʻṭīyāt.; Kitāb al-ukar.; al-Kurah al-mutaḥarrikah.; Fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah.; Kitāb al-manāẓir.; Ẓāhirat al-falak.; Fī al-ayyām wa-al-layālī.; Fī al-ṭulūʻ wa-al-ghurūb.; Fī al-maṭāliʻ mimmā aṣlaḥahu al-Kindī.; Fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-buʻdayhimā.; Kitāb al-maʼkhūdhāt.; Kurah wa-al-usṭuwānah.; Maqālat Arshimīdas fī taksīr al-dāʼirah.; Risālah fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb.
Description: 17 works, chiefly Arabic translations of Greek treatises and responses to them concerning geometry and astronomy, given a collective title that signifies that these works were to be read after Euclid's Elements in preparation for Ptolemy's Almagest (note on flyleaf 3r, at front of book). Four works (12, 13, 16, 17) are not translations, one (9) is qualified as revised by al-Kindī, one (16) is copied in a different style, and one (17) is on music. A table of contents is included (flyleaf 1 verso, at front of book), and the colophon of work 15 (f. 160v) says that Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt is complete before listing the next two works that will follow.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r) and colophon of one work (f. 160r).

Layout: 27 lines per page with some marginalia.

Script: Written chiefly in naskh in black ink; partially pointed; one work copied in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red and heavier black; numerous diagrams in red and black; tables in red and black.

Origin: The third work is dated 663? A.H. (f. 64r) and the 16th work is dated 773 A.H. and was copied by Muḥammad ibn Shadīd al-Ṭabīb al-Kāzarūnī (f. 163v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 306.

Illegible stamp (f. 1r) along with several notes from readers and former owners (f. 1r).

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Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá; loaned to Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Ḥarīrīʹzādah (note f. 1r).

Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻĀrif Bīr Miʻmārān (note f. 1r).

Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside back cover).

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 1v-11r: Taḥrīr kitāb al-muʻṭīyāt / Uqlīdis; title: 2. f. 11v-24v: Kitāb al-ukar / Thāwudhūsīyus; title: 3. f. 25r-27r: Taḥrīr kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah / Awtūlūqūs; title: 4. f. 27v-64r: Taḥrīr kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah / Mānālāwus; title: 5. f. 65v-72v: Taḥrīr al-manāẓir / Uqlīdis; title: 6. f. 73r-82v: Kitāb ẓāhirat al-falak / Uqlīdis; title: 7. f. 83r-92r: Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-ayyām wa-al-layālī / Thāwudhūsīyus; title: 8. f. 92v-100r: Kitāb Awtūlūqūs fī al-ṭulūʻ wa-al-ghurūb / Awtūlūqūs; title: 9. f. 100v-101v: Kitāb Isqilawus fī al-maṭāliʻ mimmā aṣlaḥahu al-Kindī / Isqilawus; title: 10. f. 102r-107r: Kitāb Aristarkhus fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-buʻdayhimā / Aristarkhus; title: 11. f. 107v-111v: Taḥrīr kitāb al-maʼkhūdhāt / Arshimīdas; title: 12. f. 112r-115v: Taḥrīr kitāb al-mafrūḍāt / Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī; title: 13. f. 116r-122v: Kitāb maʻrifat masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kurīyah / Banī Mūsá Muḥammad wa-al-Ḥasan wa-Aḥmad; title: 14. f. 123r-159r: Kurah wa-al-usṭuwānah / Arshimīdas; title: 15. f. 159r-160v: Maqālat Arshimīdas fī taksīr al-dāʼirah / Arshimīdas; title: 16. f. 161r-163: Risālah fī ʻamāl al-asṭurlāb / ḥarrarahā Muḥammad ibn Shadīd al-Ṭabīb al-Kāzarūnī; title: 17. f. 164r-179v: Kitāb al-adwār fī al-mūsīqá / ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī