Details

Subject(s)

• Geometry—Arab countries—History [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic [Browse]

Dedicatee

• Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 [Browse]

Related name

• الغ بگ, 1394-1449 [Browse]
• سمرقندي، محمد بن اشرف, active 13th century [Browse]
• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Author

• Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century [Browse]

Former owner

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [Browse]

Summary note

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

• 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.
• Foliation: In Eastern Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper middle recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left.
• Layout: 17 long lines with marginalia.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: [circa 1100 AH?] (from note in pencil without specific reference to internal evidence on front flyleaf 2v).
• Script: Written in nastaʻliq; pointed, mostly unvocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 43.
• Title supplied by the cataloger.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Source of description

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.

Binding note

Red half leather binding with marbled paper sides. Sewn on recessed supports with hollow spine. Gold fillet lines and titling on spine.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1055768542

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