Kitāb al-ukar

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 46 leaves : 206 x 130 (160 x 72) mm, bound to 207 x 139 mm On spheres and their geometrical qualities. Copied in a lined copybook with 14 blank leaves at the end. Further note in Persian about the copy by the scribe at the end of the text (f. 27r) Manuscript codex Title from introduction (f. 1v) Layout: 18 long lines on ruled paper Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized Decoration: Rubrications in red; numerous diagrams (nearly every page) Origin: The copy was finished in Rajab 1312 AH by Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Tabrīzī Shelfmark: MS Or 287 Colophon gives month of copying as Rajab Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936 Formerly owned by Kitābkhānah-i Tarbiyat in Tabriz, Iran (Owner's stamp dated 1898, f. 1r) Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover) Bound in black leather over card with blind tooled frame. Cover from 1311 (1893) printed copy of Tuḥfat al-amthāl, printed in Istanbul, used as pastedown Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO