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Title

Kitāb Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb
كتاب اصول الهندسة والحساب \

Authors

• Euclid

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 49
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13554122
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055768547
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_049.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554122

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1830 and 1899?

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Translation of Euclid's Elements with geometrical figures, marginal and inserted notes.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

175 foliated leaves : 205 x 140 (135 x 60) mm, bound to 205 x 135 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Islamic binding. Light brown leather frame cover with darker brown leather sides, separate marbled paper pastedowns with stubs extending across the joints. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

Layout

19 long lines; wide margins for diagrams and marginalia.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; marginal notations in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Given to D.E. Smith on April 8, 1933 in Iran. Note on inside cover "D.E. Smith No. 25 Commentary on Euclid. Gift from Dr. Sadiq.".
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Diagrams
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Frame covers
• Inlays
• Trough-marbled paper
• Compound endbands
• Secondary sewing (endband techniques)
• Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Early works
• History

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb.