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

Title

Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs.
[شرح أشكال التأسيس]

Authors

• Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436
  قاضي‌زاده، موسى بن محمد
• Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century
  سمرقندي، محمد بن اشرف

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
• Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449, dedicatee
  الغ بگ,

Call number

MS Or 43
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13554098
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055768542
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_043.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554098

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1685 and 1700?

Place

India?

Summary

Qāḍīʹzādah's commentary on Samarqandī's Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, an explication of Euclid's 35 geometrical propositions. Source-text is written in red with commentary in black; numerous diagrams.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by the cataloger.
   

Extent

48 foliated leaves : 195 x 115 (145 x 70) mm, bound to 205 x 130 mm

Foliation

In Eastern Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper middle recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left.

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

17 long lines with marginalia.

Decoration

Headings and source-text material in red, overlines in red; geometrical figures in red and black in the text and in the margins; overlines in black.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq; pointed, mostly unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Arab countries--History
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts
• Diagrams
• Recessed sewing supports

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs

Decorations

• fol. 5v — Diagram
• fol. 6r — Diagram: right, acute, and obtuse angles
• fol. 9r — Diagram: angle types
• fol. 9v — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 10v — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 12v — Diagram
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 15r — Diagram
• fol. 15v — Diagram
• fol. 17r — Diagram
• fol. 17v — Diagram
• fol. 18r — Diagram
• fol. 18v — Diagram
• fol. 19r — Diagram
• fol. 20r — Diagram
• fol. 21r — Diagram
• fol. 21v — Diagram
• fol. 22r — Diagram
• fol. 22v — Diagram
• fol. 23r — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 24r — Diagram
• fol. 24v — Diagram
• fol. 25v — Diagram
• fol. 26r — Diagram
• fol. 26v — Diagram
• fol. 27r — Diagram
• fol. 27v — Diagram
• fol. 28r — Diagram
• fol. 29r — Diagram
• fol. 29v — Diagram
• fol. 30r — Diagram
• fol. 30v — Diagram
• fol. 31r — Diagram
• fol. 31v — Diagram
• fol. 32r — Diagram
• fol. 32v — Diagram
• fol. 33r — Diagram
• fol. 33v — Diagram
• fol. 34r — Diagram
• fol. 34v — Diagram
• fol. 35r — Diagram
• fol. 35v — Diagram
• fol. 36r — Diagram
• fol. 36v — Diagram
• fol. 37r — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 38r — Diagram
• fol. 41r — Diagram
• fol. 41v — Diagram
• fol. 42r — Diagram
• fol. 46r — Diagram
• fol. 47r — Diagram
• fol. 48r — Diagram