Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 64

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6517

Shelfmark:

MS Or 64

Title:

Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt

Author:

Euclid

Euclid WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1638.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 159 leaves : paper, diagrams ; 250 x 130 (175 x 67) mm, bound to 250 x 130 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left, some taped over.
Layout: 21 long lines with marginalia; diagrams on almost every page, set in text and in the margins.
Script: Nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubricated in red, headings and overlines in red; geometrical figures in red and black.
Origin: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1047 A.H. (Jan./Feb. 1638) (f. 161r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 64.

Keyword:

History

blind-tooled (decoration)

compilation manuscripts

Early works

diagrams

manuscripts (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Geometry

Arab countries

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13892533

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13892533_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library