Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 282

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DS ID:

DS6624

Shelfmark:

MS Or 282

Title:

Tarjumah-i kitāb-i Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdus-i dar uṣūl-i handasah va ḥisāb

Author:

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

Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi WIKIDATA

Date:

1378.

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 75 foliated leaves, iii : paper, illustrations ; 260 x 126 (226 x 68) mm, bound to 271 x 130 mm

Former Owner(s):

Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936

George Arthur Plimpton WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from note on f. 1r.
Layout: 34-37 lines per page.
Script: Written in rapid nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Numerous mathematical diagrams in red and black; headings and rubrications in red.
Origin: Copy completed at the beginning of Shaʻbān in 780 A.H. (December 1378 CE).
Shelfmark: MS Or 282.
Paper label on older cover with title and price in Rupees.

Keyword:

diagrams

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Islamic Empire

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

Euclid's Elements

Mathematics, Arab

Manuscripts, Persian

Geometry

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642715

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642715_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library