Author
Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436.
Publication Date
1731
Subject
Euclid., Euclid. /
Elements., Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf,, Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, /
active 13th century., Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, / active 13th century. /
Ashkāl al-taʼsīs., 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. ([72] p.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002583102
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "A commentary on the Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, a compendium of geometry according to Euclid by Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarḳandī." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. | Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.
Contains geometrical diagrams.
Text rubricated; marginal commentary and corrections in hand of copyist.
End date from owner's mark on p. [1].
For al-Samarqandī's Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 726; for a later copy of this sharḥ, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 728.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's autograph and date: min ʻārif al-dahr ilá afqar al-wará Muḥammad al-Shāmī sanat ʻishrīn wa-alf [1611 or 12]; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.