Item Summary

A short treatise on geometry based on Euclidʼs Elements.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه رساله في اقتنا براهين العلوم الحسابيه والاعمال الجبريه والمساحيه على اشكال التاسيس من كتاب اقليدس.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Risālah fī iqtināʼ barāhīn al-ʻulūm al-ḥisābīyah wa-al-aʻmāl al-jabrīyah wa-al-masāḥīyah ʻalá ashkāl al-taʼsīs min kitāb Uqlīdis.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 154L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8623j978j
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
9 leaves : paper ; 232 x 165 (165 x 98) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1062.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Spaces left in the text, perhaps for diagrams.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 9 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة على رسوله ... وبعد فان جماعة من الفضلا ,وطيفه من الاصدقا التمسوا منى رسالة تكون مقدمة ...
Ending: الذي هو مربع خ د. تم الکلام
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/64314f0f-b142-481e-b0a3-3c8ca38888c5/manifest