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Redaction of the Elements of geometry of Euclid.
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- Publisher
- [1330]
- People
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- Author
- Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
- طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 153L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Redaction of the Elements of geometry of Euclid.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب تحرير اقليدس
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Taḥrīr Uqlīdus.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 153L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmp48sr86p
- Publisher
- [1330]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1330
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 116 leaves: paper, ill. ; 190 x 145 (125 x 100) mm bound to 190 x 145 mm.
- Provenance
- Dedication in French, dated June 1, 1787, to Jean Baptiste N?écourt interprete du roi(?) de Se ? (fol.1a, repeated on fol.116b -- inverted). Buying statement dated 1240 H. with seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1054
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Incipit: الحمد لله الذى منه الابتداء واليه الانتهاء وعنده حقايق الانباء(؟) وبيده ملكوت الاشياء وصلواته على محمد واله الاصفياء وبعد فلما فرغت عن تحرير المجسطى رايت ان احرر كتاب اصول الهندسة والحساب المنسوب الى اقليدس ... اقول الكتاب مشتمل على خمس عشرة مقالة
- Title from inscription on fol. 1a (later hand).
- Marginal annotations. Contains diagrams and charts (some on pieces of paper pasted on the original leaf). Note on the existing copies at the beginning of the text and in a note on fol. 116.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves are misplaced. Stained with water ; worm-eaten (especially at end of volume) ; fragile.
- Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 16 Jumādá al-Ūlá 730 [March 7, 1330] by Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ṭayyib al-? [Hitti reads al-Turkmānī] (fol. 116a).
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in burgundy leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-stamped mandorla and an outer border consisting of two fillets. Paper pastedown. Traces of a now wanting flap. Disbound.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 258
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/30e12e2e-4fd7-4d38-8144-16f3867b044c/manifest