[Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs].

[شرح أشكال التأسيس].

Description

Main Author

Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436.

Related Names

Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century.
Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449, dedicatee.
Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner.
Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Language(s)

Arabic

Published

[India?], [between 1685 and 1700?]

Subjects

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Geometry.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / New York (State) > Manuscripts, Arabic / New York (State) / New York.
Geometry > Geometry / Arab countries > Geometry / Arab countries / History.
New York (State) > New York (State) / New York.
Arab countries.
Recessed sewing supports.
History.
Diagrams.
Codices (bound manuscripts)

Summary

Qāḍīʹzādah's commentary on Samarqandī's Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, an explication of Euclid's 35 geometrical propositions. Source-text is written in red with commentary in black; numerous diagrams.

Note

Shelfmark: MS Or 43.
Origin: [circa 1100 AH?] (from note in pencil without specific reference to internal evidence on front flyleaf 2v).
Decoration: Headings and source-text material in red, overlines in red; geometrical figures in red and black in the text and in the margins; overlines in black.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq; pointed, mostly unvocalized.
Foliation: In Eastern Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper middle recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left.
Layout: 17 long lines with marginalia.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
Manuscript codex.

Physical Description

1 online resource (48 foliated leaves) : paper, illustrations

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