Item Summary

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.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحرير كتاب مانالاوس في الاشكال الكرية.
Transliterated Title
Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwis fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 105B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m039k493g
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1229
Extent
83 leaves : paper, ill. ; 193 x 85 (128 x 42) mm. bound to 192 x 98 mm.
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
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
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
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.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
172

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9b37d37e-1dcf-4bb1-96e0-2882df61d062/manifest