Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs :
manuscript,
[between 1400? and 1611].

شرح أشكال التأسيس : manuscript، [between 1400? and 1611].

Description

Main Author

Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436.

Related Names

Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century.
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Subjects

Euclid. > Euclid. / Elements.
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, > Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, / active 13th century. > Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, / active 13th century. / Ashkāl al-taʼsīs.
Geometry > Geometry / Early works to 1800.
Mathematics, Arab > Mathematics, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

"A commentary on the Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, a compendium of geometry according to Euclid by Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarḳandī." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.

Note

Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.
Contains geometrical diagrams.
Text rubricated; marginal commentary and corrections in hand of copyist.
End date from owner's mark on p. [1].
For al-Samarqandī's Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 726; for a later copy of this sharḥ, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 728.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's autograph and date: min ʻārif al-dahr ilá afqar al-wará Muḥammad al-Shāmī sanat ʻishrīn wa-alf [1611 or 12]; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([72] p.) : ill. ; 22 cm

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