Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1495Y

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29100

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1495Y

Title:

Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdus / تحرير اقليدس

Author:

Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 1237-1310 or 1311 / قطب الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود

Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi WIKIDATA

Date:

1552

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 171 leaves : paper, ill. ; 190 x 125 (115 x 65) mm. bound to 190 x 130 mm.

Note:

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.
Impression of a seal on fol. 171a (repeated at the end of most maqālah).
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Persian

Sixteenth century

History

Euclid's Elements

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Mathematics, Arab

Thirteenth century

Sources

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Geometry

Islamic Empire

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954973353506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University