تحرير اقليدس

Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdus.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1552]
Description
171 leaves : paper, ill. ; 190 x 125 (115 x 65) mm. bound to 190 x 130 mm.

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    Summary note
    Persian translation by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd al-Shīrāzī 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 presented as the end of Kitāb-i Uqlīdus, maqālah 14 and 15 being appendices attributed to Asqilānus [Hypsikles] (fol. 164a and 168b). See GAS, V, 143-145, where the name is given as Ibsiqlāwus, Insiqlāwūs, and Isqilāwus. Aceph. copy. The first extant maqālah is Maqālah 3 (fol. 19a). The text is followed on fol. 171b by the date of birth of Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭusī, with a table of his astrological theme.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from inscription on fol. 1a (repeated on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover).
    • Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black and red ink. Contains figures and diagrams. Marginal annotations. Dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines and pulp visible.
    • Spine label (horizontal) with title: "Durrat al-tāj lil-Quṭb".
    • Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ghaffārī for Mawlānā Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ---(?) sulṭān Muḥammad ibn ... Muḥammad Qāʼinī. The work (tanmīq) was completed in the third decade of Jumādá al-Thānī 959 [June 1552] (fol. 171a).
    • Patronage: Copied for Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ---(?) sulṭān Muḥammad ibn ... Muḥammad Qāʼinī.
    • Beginning as extant: خظ خطى مستقيم وصل كنيم س اكر از اتصال ايشان زوايه خاصل تشده باشد ايشان
    Binding note
    Brown leather over paper pastebaords. Blind stamped ceantral scalloped mandorla filled with a floral motif. Outer border of fillets. Rebacked. Paper pastedowns.
    Provenance
    • Impression of a seal on fol. 171a (repeated at the end of most maqālah).
    • Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
    References
    Storey, C.A. Persian Literature, vol. II. Pt 1, p. 1
    Other title(s)
    • كتاب اقليدس
    • ترجمه تحرير اقليدس
    Title at end of Maqālah 11 (fol. 138a) and at end of Maqālah 13 (fol. 164a)
    • Kitāb-i Uqlīdus
    Title in Storey, C. A. Persian Literature
    • Tarjamah-i Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdis
    OCLC
    231401954
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