Delhi Persian 1441A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Euclidian geometry, 4 items (a-d)
Contents
Language(s): Arabic and Persian
Delhi Persian 1441A(a), ff. 1v-23v.
Persian translation by Imām al-Dīn Riyāz̤ī ibn Luṭf Allāh Muhandis Dihlavī Darbīof an earlier Arabic compendium on Euclid, the Ashkāl al-taʾsīsby Shams al-Dīn Samarqandī.
The work was completed in 1111/1699-1700 with the intention of being presented as a gift in the majlis or gathering of the noble, Muḥammad Yār Khān.
The work comprises a muqaddimah and thirty-five diagrams.
Dated colophon (f. 23v): completed 1130/1718.
Multiple diagrams in the main text and dense annotations in margins.
Delhi Persian 1441A(b), ff. 23v-24r.
Untitled and incomplete excerpt from an Arabic treatise on the geometry of reflected figures, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Delhi Persian 1441A(c), ff. 24v-36v .
Arabic treatise on optical reality, illusions, perspective and reflections, by Imām al-Dīn Riyāz̤ī ibn Luṭf Allāh Muhandis Dihlavī Darbī.
Dated colophon (f. 36v): completed 1132/1720.
Dense annotations.
Diagrams; several spaces left blank.
Delhi Persian 1441A(d), ff. 37v-38v.
Untitled selection of Urdu ghazals by unidentified poets.
Not dated at end.
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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