Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb /
اصول الهندسة والحساب

Authors

• Euclid

Other related names

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274, translator
  طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 30 - FOLIO/FLAT
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13540650
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1054926663
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_030.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13540650

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1348

Place

Iran?

Summary

Copy of the Arabic translation of Euclid's Elements through book XV with marginalia. Several leaves have been remounted because of damage.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

95 foliated leaves : 285 x 165 (185 x 95) mm, bound to 295 x 190 mm

Foliation

Foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red half leather binding with marbled paper sides. Sewn on recessed supports with hollow spine. Gold fillet lines and titling on spine.

Layout

24-26 long lines, with extensive marginalia and geometrical shapes.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq with marginalia in rapid nastaʻliq; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Arab countries--History
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Diagrams
• Half covers
• Recessed sewing supports
• Trough-marbled paper

Licenses

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