Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt
Contributors: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274, translator; Yazdī, Muḥammad Bāqir Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, active 17th century; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1638
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Geometry; History; Early works to 1800; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb.; Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt.
Work titles: Elements
Description: Copy of Euclid's Elements with several pages of commentary included at the end.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left, some taped over.

Layout: 21 long lines with marginalia; diagrams on almost every page, set in text and in the margins.

Script: Nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubricated in red, headings and overlines in red; geometrical figures in red and black.

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

Shelfmark: MS Or 64.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

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

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 1v-158v: Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb / Uqlīdis; title: 2. f. 158v-161r: Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Yazdī.