Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 153L

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DS ID:

DS29333

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 153L

Title:

Kitāb Taḥrīr Uqlīdus / كتاب تحرير اقليدس

Author:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 / طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi WIKIDATA

Date:

1330

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 116 leaves: paper, ill. ; 190 x 145 (125 x 100) mm bound to 190 x 145 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1a (later hand).
Marginal annotations. Contains diagrams and charts (some on pieces of paper pasted on the original leaf). Note on the existing copies at the beginning of the text and in a note on fol. 116.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves are misplaced. Stained with water ; worm-eaten (especially at end of volume) ; fragile.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 16 Jumādá al-Ūlá 730 [March 7, 1330] by Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ṭayyib al-? [Hitti reads al-Turkmānī] (fol. 116a).
Dedication in French, dated June 1, 1787, to Jean Baptiste N?écourt interprete du roi(?) de Se ? (fol.1a, repeated on fol.116b -- inverted). Buying statement dated 1240 H. with seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Keyword:

diagrams

Stamps

Blind tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Geometry

Islamic Empire

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955765223506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/30e12e2e-4fd7-4d38-8144-16f3867b044c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University