Author
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century.
Publication Date
1731
Subject
Euclid., Euclid. /
Elements., Geometry, Geometry /
Early works to 1800., Mathematics, Arab, Mathematics, Arab /
Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([83] p. on 23 lvs.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002583101
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "This work ... summarizes with their abridged demonstrations thirty-five fundamental propositions of Euclid's geometry." Hâmit Dilgan, "al-Samarqandī," in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, v. 12, p. 91a. | Watermarks: Face-in-the-Moon in double-bordered shield; Carbera De Mori Vittorio in script. For the former see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 19th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.
Contains geometrical diagrams.
Text rubricated; marginal corrections and numbering of each kurrāsah in hand of copyist.
Date in colophon: 5 Jumādá al-ūlá sanat 1312 hijrīyah [4 November 1894].
For the sharḥ of Qāḍī Zādah on this work see Mich. Isl. Mss. 726 and 727.
Text (not this copy) published.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.