Fols. 29; 17.6 x 13.7 cm.; written surface 12.5 x 7 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with few vowel signs; with catchwords. A commentary on Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, a compendium of geometry modeled after the Elements of Euclid by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī, ca. A.H. 600 [A.D. 1203/4]. The present work was composed for Ulugh Bey, A.D. 1449. Beg.: وصفا اعني حضر ... وبعد فان جماعة من الفضلاء Colophon: وذلك ما اردناه وهذه الاشکال الخمسة الاخىرة من ثانىة کتاب الاصول لاقلىدس الصوري ولىکن هذا آخر الکلام والحمد لله على الاتمام Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Work fully illustrated with diagrams. Title appears as Kitāb al-Uṣūl li-Uqlīdis. MS incomplete at beginning; in good condition but mended; Arabic binding. Probably from XVIth century. Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925. Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 322; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5943/4; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1498.
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