Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb.

Title:

Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb.
في الفلك والهندسة والحساب

Creator:

Menelaus, of Alexandria
Ṭūsī, al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad, active 12th century
Alhazen, 965-1039
Archimedes
Aristarchus, of Samos
Nasawī, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, -1039
Omar Khayyam
Ṣābiʼ, Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century
Sanjarī, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century-11th century
Sijzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1084 or 1085
Fārābī
Ibn al-Surá, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1153

Date:

12--?-13--?

Description:

Collection of treatises, copied in the same hand, on mathematical sciences. Topics include calculating heights, distances, areas, solving geometrical and algebraic problems, music theory. At the back of the work are three additions: 1) pages of notes, probably by the copyist, about some of the works in the collection (f. 129r-137v), 2) an added commentary on Apollonius' Conics copied in a different hand (f. 139v-143r), 3) further notes. One folio in Persian (f. 71) is misplaced and should follow folio 78.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Compilation manuscripts
Manuscripts (documents)
Diagrams
Blind tooled (decoration)
Annotations (Provenance)
Stamps (Provenance)
Notes (documents)
Apollonius,--of Perga--Conics
Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
Geometry--Arab countries--Early works to 1800
Algebra--Early works to 1800
Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Music theory--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Provenance:

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.Formerly owned by Naʻīm (stamp and note, f. 1r).

Extent:

Chiefly 19 lines per page; some marginalia.

Publisher:

Columbia University

Rights:

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Identifier:

MS Or 45

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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