Description of Columbia University. MS Or 43: Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs.Columbia University.These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 43: Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 43: Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.Manuscript codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.New York, NY. 10027Columbia University.Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryMS Or 4313554098http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055768542http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_043.htmlhttps://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554098Qāḍīʹzādah'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.ArabicSharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs.[شرح أشكال التأسيس]Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436قاضيزاده، موسى بن محمدSamarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th centuryسمرقندي، محمد بن اشرفformer ownerSmith, David Eugene, 1860-1944dedicateeUlugh Beg, 1394-1449الغ بگ,1vSharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs
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48 foliated leaves : 195 x 115 (145 x 70) mm, bound to 205 x 130 mmIn Eastern Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper middle recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left.17 long lines with marginalia.Written in nastaʻliq; pointed, mostly unvocalized.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.DiagramDiagram: right, acute, and obtuse anglesDiagram: types of trianglesDiagram: center, diameter, radius of circleDiagram: angle typesDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagramDiagram
Red half leather binding with marbled paper sides. Sewn on recessed supports with hollow spine. Gold fillet lines and titling on spine.
[circa 1100 AH?] (from note in pencil without specific reference to internal evidence on front flyleaf 2v).
between 1685 and 1700?India?Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.Geometry--Arab countries--HistoryManuscripts, ArabicCodicesManuscriptsDiagramsRecessed sewing supports