Details

Subject(s)

• Geometry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Geometry—Arab countries—History [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic [Browse]

Former owner

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

Translator

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 [Browse]

Related name

• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

Copy of the Arabic translation of Euclid's Elements through book XV with marginalia. Several leaves have been remounted because of damage.

Notes

• Decoration: Diagrams, headings, and overlines in red.
• Foliation: Foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto.
• Layout: 24-26 long lines, with extensive marginalia and geometrical shapes.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: 751 A.H. (f. 95v).
• Script: Written in nastaʻliq with marginalia in rapid nastaʻliq; pointed, unvocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 30 - FOLIO/FLAT.
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).

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.

Other title(s)

• Taḥrīr
• تحرير.
• Elements book I-XV

OCLC

1054926663

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