• تحرير كتاب مانالاوس في الاشكال الكرية.
• Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwis fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah

Collections:

• Robert Garrett
• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946832623506421

Language:

• Arabic

Creator:

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
• طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد.

Call number:

• Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 105B
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• 83 leaves : paper, ill. ; 193 x 85 (128 x 42) mm. bound to 192 x 98 mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from opening rubric (fol. 3b).
• 18 long lines per page. Written in a script tending to shikastah, using black ink and some red. Dark cream paper, glossy, with horizontal laid lines visible. The text is illustrated with numerous diagrams in black and red ink. Abundant marginalia; one leaf is damaged so that parts of the marginalia are lost (see fol. 42). Catchwords on the verso of each leaf.
• Text begins on fol. 3b.
• According to the colophon, copied in 627 H. (fol. 83b). Hitti suggests however a later date (15th cent.?).
• Incipit: اقول بعد حمد الله والثناء عليه ... اني كنت اريد ان احرر الكتب الموسومة بالمتوسطات
• Explicit: قائم من زوية ا ه ب اصغر من قائم وكذلك زوية ه ا ب زذلك ما اردناه اقول فهذا الشكل ليس بمنسى على ما يتقدمه من هذا الكتاب

Publisher:

• [1229 or 1230?]

Subject:

• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800
• Spherical trigonometry—Early works to 1800
• Menelaus, of Alexandria—Spherica
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Title sort:

• Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwis fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah.

Alternative:

• Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah
• Kitāb Mānālāwis fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah
• Kitāb Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwis fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah lil-Ṭūsī
• كتاب مانالاوس في الاشكال الكرية
• كتاب تحرير كتاب مانالاوس في الاشكال الكرية للطوسي

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Binding note:

• Dark-brown leather over paper pasteboard. There are gold-tooled frames on the upper and lower covers: a central rectangular frame formed of two lines and an outer frame formed of one border of gold stamped S-shapes forming a cablework pattern, with two gold lines on each side. Modern pastedowns and fly-leaves added.

Provenance:

• Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.

Source acquisition:

• Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References:

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1055
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 511/24
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 929/24
• Sezgin, F. GAS, V, 162-163

Author:

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Created:

• 1229-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1229

Abstract:

• Edition of the Spherics of Menelaos of Alexandria mentioning the editions by al-Māhānī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Saʻd al-Harawī and Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻIrāq.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/m039k493g

Location:

• HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 105B
• HSVM Electronic Resource
• ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 105B
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Type:

• Early works to 1800

Range label:

• Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwis fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah
• Colophon

Available online:

• Digital content