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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language Persian Subject Geometry--Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v

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Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v
Title:
Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

Ff. 310v-342v

2. Add MS 23570, ff 86v-117r

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Add MS 23570, ff 86v-117r
Title:
Short mathematical texts, notes and diagrams in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
Notable contents include: Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) edition of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (الأصول) (ff. 86v-88r); Text by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1605-1610
Extent:

Ff. 86v-117r

3. Add MS 23570, ff 117v-133v

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Add MS 23570, ff 117v-133v
Title:
Fawā’id al-Jamālī fī uṣūl al-handasah فوائد الجمالي في أصول الهندسة Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf سمرقندي، محمد بن أشرف
Scope & Content:
Persian translation of a treatise on geometry, the Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (أشكال التأسيس) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (شمس الدين محمد بن أشرف الحسيني السمرقندي, d. 1302; see f. 118v, line 7). The translation was made by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qiwām al-Qāḍ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1605-1610
Extent:

Ff. 117v-133v

4. Add MS 27261, ff 343r-344r

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Add MS 27261, ff 343r-344r
Title:
Mukhtaṣir dar ʻilm-i Iqlīdis by Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʻūd, d. ca. 1436 مختصر در علم اقلیدس
Scope & Content:
Elements of geometry, consisting of a few theorems from the first book of Euclid, with diagrams
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
From Jumāda I, 813 to Jumāda II, 814
Extent:
1 text