Archive Reference (shelfmark): Or 9649 / Language: Arabic / Subject: Mechanics--Early works to 1800 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 9649 Language Arabic Subject Mechanics--Early works to 1800

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9649
Title:: Three treatises on musical organs by Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:: Three technical treatises (رسالات) on the construction of musical organs attributed to Mūrisṭus (مورسطس), variously and tentatively identified as Ariston (the dedicatee of the Pneumatica of Philo of Byzantium, d. c 220 BC), Ameristos (an early Greek mathematician mentioned in Proclus' [d. 485] c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+13+xxii

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