R.13.39 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

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1 copy of Taḥrīr al-uṣūl li-Uqlīdis by Euclid

Author: Euclid اقلیداس إقليدس

Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-uṣūl li-Uqlīdis

Title: كتاب تحرير الأصول لاقليدس

An Arabic translation of Euclid’s Geometry.

Incipit: الحمد لله الذي منه الابتداء وإليه الانتهاء وعنده حقائق الأبناء وبيده ملكوت الأشياء وصلوة إلخ

Explicit: وقفني الله تعالى من تحرير هذا الكتاب حسب ما قصدته فلأختم الكلام بحمده أنه خير موفق ومعين

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 78

Palmer, pp. 86-7

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Thick paper

Extent: 167 ff.

Condition

In a good state of preservation

Hand(s)

Arabic Naskh

History

Origin: 1558

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".

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Funding of Cataloguing

Trinity College Cambridge

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