Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥikmah.
- Holding institution:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥikmah.
كتاب ميزان الحكمة - Creator:
- Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1121
- Date:
- 1250?-1350?
- Description:
- Substantial sections from an illustrated treatise on the measurement of weight, with a historical introduction to theories of gravity and weighing in Greek and Arabic science; tables of densities of substances including metals, precious stones, solids, and liquids; and descriptions of different types of balances. 26 diagrams and 18 tables with a few marginal notes. A few catchwords have been added by later hands. Damage to edges of many leaves.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Arabic--13th century
Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
Manuscripts, Medieval
Gatherings (gathered matter components)
Detached leaves
Treatises
Diagrams
Tables (documents)
Early works
Codices
Balances (Weighing instruments)--Early works to 1800
Scales (Weighing instruments)--Early works to 1800
Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800
Mechanics--Early works to 1800
Balances (Weighing instruments)
Scales (Weighing instruments) - Provenance:
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 22 (2000), to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Extent:
- Written in 15 long lines.
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 386: Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥikmah. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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- LJS 386
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World