Tarjumah-i kitāb-i Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdus-i dar uṣūl-i handasah va ḥisāb
Contributors: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274; Euclid; Hypsicles, of Alexandria; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner, donor; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1378
Language: per
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Euclid's Elements; Early works to 1800; Geometry; Arab Mathematics; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdis; Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdus
Description: Persian translation of the Taḥrīr Kitāb Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb, an edition by Nāṣir al-Dīn Ṭūsī of Euclid's Elements, in fifteen maqālah. Maqālah 13 is the end of Kitāb-i Uqlīdus, maqālah 14 and 15 are appendices attributed to Asqilānus [Hypsikles]. The first folio of this copy lists the contents of Kitāb al-Mutawassiṭāt and has an effaced owner's stamp.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from note on f. 1r.

Layout: 34-37 lines per page.

Script: Written in rapid nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Numerous mathematical diagrams in red and black; headings and rubrications in red.

Origin: Copy completed at the beginning of Shaʻbān in 780 A.H. (December 1378 CE).

Shelfmark: MS Or 282.

Paper label on older cover with title and price in Rupees.

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Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.

Persian.

Rebound in modern library cloth; earlier quarter covers with red leather spine and corners and blue textile sides kept with the copy.

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