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Title

Tarjumah-i kitāb-i Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdus-i dar uṣūl-i handasah va ḥisāb.
ترجمه کتاب تحرير اقليدس در اصول هندسه و حساب

Authors

• Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 1237-1310 or 1311
  قطب الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود،
• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
  طوسى، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،
• Euclid
• Hypsicles, of Alexandria

Other related names

• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner
• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, donor

Call number

MS Or 282
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14441784
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1134993415
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_282.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14441784

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1378

Summary

Persian translation of the Taḥrīr Kitāb Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb, an edition by Nāṣir al-Dīn Ṭūsī of Euclid's Elements, in fifteen maqālah. Maqālah 13 is the end of Kitāb-i Uqlīdus, maqālah 14 and 15 are appendices attributed to Asqilānus [Hypsikles]. The first folio of this copy lists the contents of Kitāb al-Mutawassiṭāt and has an effaced owner's stamp.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from note on f. 1r.
   
• Paper label on older cover with title and price in Rupees.
   

Extent

Ii, 75 foliated leaves, iii : 260 x 126 (226 x 68) mm, bound to 271 x 130 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in modern library cloth; earlier quarter covers with red leather spine and corners and blue textile sides kept with the copy.

Layout

34-37 lines per page.

Decoration

Numerous mathematical diagrams in red and black; headings and rubrications in red.

Script

Written in rapid nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   

Subjects topical

• Euclid's Elements--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Diagrams

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Tarjumah-i kitāb-i Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdis-i dar uṣūl-i handasah va ḥisāb

Decorations

• fol. 4r — Diagrams
• fol. 4v — Diagrams
• fol. 2v — Diagrams
• fol. 3r — Diagrams
• fol. 3v — Diagrams
• fol. 6r — Diagrams
• fol. 6v — Diagrams
• fol. 7r — Diagrams
• fol. 7v — Diagrams
• fol. 5r — Diagrams
• fol. 5v — Diagrams
• fol. 8r — Diagrams
• fol. 8v — Diagrams
• fol. 9r — Diagrams
• fol. 9v — Diagrams
• Insert recto — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagrams
• fol. 10v — Diagrams
• fol. 11r — Diagrams
• fol. 11v — Diagrams
• fol. 12r — Diagrams
• fol. 12v — Diagrams
• fol. 13r — Diagrams
• fol. 13v — Diagrams
• fol. 14r — Diagrams
• fol. 14v — Diagrams
• fol. 15r — Diagrams
• fol. 15v — Diagrams
• fol. 16r — Diagrams
• fol. 16v — Diagrams
• fol. 17r — Diagrams
• fol. 17v — Diagrams
• fol. 18r — Diagrams
• fol. 18v — Diagrams
• fol. 19r — Diagrams
• fol. 19v — Diagrams
• fol. 20r — Diagrams
• fol. 20v — Diagrams
• fol. 21r — Diagrams
• fol. 21v — Diagrams
• fol. 22r — Diagrams
• fol. 22v — Diagrams
• fol. 23r — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagrams
• fol. 24r — Diagrams
• fol. 24v — Diagrams
• fol. 25r — Diagrams
• fol. 25v — Diagrams
• fol. 26r — Diagrams
• fol. 26v — Diagrams
• fol. 27r — Diagrams
• fol. 27v — Diagram
• fol. 28r — Diagrams
• fol. 28v — Diagrams
• fol. 29r — Diagrams
• fol. 29v — Diagrams
• fol. 30r — Diagrams
• fol. 30v — Diagrams
• fol. 31r — Diagrams
• fol. 31v — Diagrams
• fol. 32v — Diagram
• fol. 33r — Diagram
• fol. 33v — Diagrams
• fol. 34r — Diagram
• fol. 34v — Diagrams
• fol. 35r — Diagrams
• fol. 35v — Diagrams
• fol. 36r — Diagrams
• fol. 36v — Diagrams
• fol. 37r — Diagrams
• fol. 37v — Diagrams
• fol. 38r — Diagrams
• fol. 38v — Diagrams
• fol. 39r — Diagrams
• fol. 39v — Diagrams
• fol. 40r — Diagrams
• fol. 40v — Diagrams
• fol. 41r — Diagrams
• fol. 41v — Diagrams
• fol. 42r — Diagrams
• fol. 42v — Diagram
• fol. 43r — Diagrams
• fol. 43v — Diagrams
• fol. 44r — Diagrams
• fol. 44v — Diagrams
• fol. 45r — Diagrams
• fol. 45v — Diagrams
• fol. 46r — Diagrams
• fol. 46v — Diagrams
• fol. 47r — Diagrams
• fol. 48r — Diagrams
• fol. 48v — Diagrams
• fol. 49r — Diagrams
• fol. 49v — Diagrams
• fol. 50r — Diagrams
• fol. 50v — Diagrams
• fol. 51r — Diagrams
• fol. 51v — Diagrams
• fol. 52r — Diagrams
• fol. 52v — Diagrams
• fol. 53r — Diagram
• fol. 53v — Diagrams
• fol. 54r — Diagram
• fol. 54v — Diagrams
• fol. 55r — Diagrams
• fol. 55v — Diagrams
• fol. 56r — Diagrams
• fol. 56v — Diagrams
• fol. 57r — Diagrams
• fol. 57v — Diagrams
• fol. 58r — Diagram
• fol. 58v — Diagrams
• fol. 59r — Diagrams
• fol. 59v — Diagrams
• fol. 60r — Diagrams
• fol. 60v — Diagrams
• fol. 61r — Diagrams
• fol. 61v — Diagrams
• fol. 62r — Diagrams
• fol. 62v — Diagrams
• fol. 63r — Diagrams
• fol. 63v — Diagrams
• fol. 64r — Diagrams
• fol. 64v — Diagrams
• fol. 65r — Diagram
• fol. 65v — Diagrams
• fol. 66r — Diagrams
• fol. 66v — Diagrams
• fol. 67r — Diagrams
• fol. 67v — Diagrams
• fol. 68r — Diagrams
• fol. 68v — Diagrams
• fol. 69r — Diagrams
• fol. 69v — Diagrams
• fol. 70r — Diagram
• fol. 70v — Diagram
• fol. 71r — Diagram
• fol. 71v — Diagrams
• fol. 72r — Diagrams
• fol. 72v — Diagrams
• fol. 73r — Diagram
• fol. 73v — Diagrams
• fol. 74r — Diagrams
• fol. 74v — Diagram
• Original inside front cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"