Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr).
- Holding institution:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr).
- Creator:
- Ibn Luyūn al-Tujībī, Saʻd ibn Aḥmad, 1282 or 1283-1349 or 1350
- Date:
- 13--?-14--?
- Description:
- A didactic poem on surveying and measuring areas including triangles, quadrilaterals and circles.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams
Treatises
Early works
Mathematics--Early works to 1800
Geometry--Early works to 1800
Geometry
Mathematics - Geographic region:
- Spain?
- Provenance:
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
- Extent:
- Written in 21 long lines; ruled in dry point.
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 465: Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr). 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 465
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World