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Add MS 23391
- Record Id:
- 032-002714010
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002714010
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022555293.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023491122.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23391
- Title:
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Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات
Archimedes أرشميدس
and
Ṣan‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر
Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
- Scope & Content:
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Two technical treatises on the design and construction of hydraulic machines.
Contents:
- (1) Archimedes (أرشميدس), Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt (كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات; ff. 2r-21r);
- (2) Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), Ṣan‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر; ff. 21r-25v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002714010
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- Add MS 23391, ff 2r-21r : Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكاماتArchimedes أرشميدس
Add MS 23391, ff 21r-25v : Ṣan‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامرApollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+25+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022555293.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 193 x 136 mm leaf [121 x 56 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated titles and diagrams in red and black
Decoration: Diagrams on ff. 2r, 11r, 12v and 14v beautifully painted
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Waterstains, wormholes, foxing, grime, etc
Marginalia: 1 marginal correction (f. 8v) by main scribe
Seals: f. 2r
- Custodial History:
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Ottoman period seal (f. 2r)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mrs Taylor, April 1860
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), Item 1336, p. 619
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)