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مقالة في قسمة الزاوية بثلاثة اقسام متساوية ... [الخ.]
Maqālah fī qismat al-zāwiyah bi-thalāthat aqsām mutasāwiyah ... [etc.]
1600-1699
A collection of short geometry and mathematical texts.
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- Publisher
- [17th century?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 152L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of short geometry and mathematical texts.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- مقالة في قسمة الزاوية بثلاثة اقسام متساوية ... [الخ.]
- Transliterated Title
- Maqālah fī qismat al-zāwiyah bi-thalāthat aqsām mutasāwiyah ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 152L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6682xh01q
- Publisher
- [17th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1699
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 3 leaves : paper ; 230 x 161 (157 x 94) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2075.
- A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 767⁵.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. [i]b: Maqālah fī qismat al-zāwiyah bi-thalāthat aqsām mutasāwiyah / li-Abī Sahl al-Kūhī. Short treatise on dividing the angle into three equal parts.
- 2. fol. [i]b-1a: Maqālah fī istikhrāj khaṭṭayn yatawālayāni ʻalá nisbah wāḥidah bayna khaṭṭayn / li-Abī Sahl al-Kūhī. Geometrical treatise.
- 3. fol. 1a-2a: [Treatise on geometry] / Aṣīl al-Dīn ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn.
- 4. fol. 2a-3a: Fāʼidah fī bayān al-nisbah al-muʼallafah. A short treatise on arithmetic.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from beginning of first work (fol. [i]b).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 3 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 23 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
- Incipit: [مقالة في قسمة الزاوية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم مقالة لابى سهل الكوهى ... نريد ان تفضل من زاوية معلومة ثلثها ... -- [مقالة في استخراج] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نجعل الخطين محيطين بزاوية ...--[Treatise on geometry] قال الصدد السعيد سيد الحكما وقدوة الفضلا اصيل الدين بن نصير الدين رحمه الله ه ط نريد ان نعمل على خط مثلثا متساوى ... -- [فائدة] يقال ان النسبة المولفة من النسب اذا ضوعفت كمية السبب بعضها ببعض ...
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 8
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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