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تحرير اقليدس
Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdus.
Author
Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 1237-1310 or 1311
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قطب الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
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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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Status
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Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1495Y
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Subject(s)
Geometry
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Islamic empire
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History
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13th century
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Mathematics, Arab
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History
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13th century
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Euclid's Elements
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Persian
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1201-1274
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Contains
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274.
Taḥrīr Uṣūl al-handasah.
Persian.
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طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد.
تحرير اصول الهندسة
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Euclid.
Elements.
Persian.
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Hypsicles, of Alexandria.
Elementa geometria.
Persian.
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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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