Description of Columbia University. MS Or 64: Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt.

Description of Columbia University. MS Or 64: Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 64: Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt. 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 64: Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt.. 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 from introduction (f. 1v). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 64 13615973 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076493432 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_064.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13615973

Copy of Euclid's Elements with several pages of commentary included at the end.

Arabic Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt. اصول الهندسة والحساب. في بيان المربعات Euclid Yazdī, Muḥammad Bāqir Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, active 17th century يزدي، محمد باقر بن زين العابدين translator Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v Elements

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159 leaves : 250 x 130 (175 x 67) mm, bound to 250 x 130 mm Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left, some taped over. 21 long lines with marginalia; diagrams on almost every page, set in text and in the margins. Nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Brown leather with blind stamped central mandorla, two pendants along the vertical axis and frame.

Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1047 A.H. (Jan./Feb. 1638) (f. 161r).

1638 Iran? Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Geometry--Arab countries--History Geometry--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic Codices Diagrams Blind tooled (decoration) Manuscripts