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TEXT

Ashkāl al-taʾsīs

Title (arabic)

أشكال التأسيس
Title (translit)

Ashkāl al-taʾsīs
Alias

Aškāl al-taʾsīs
Author

Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Geometry: General
Text type

Abridgement (epitome)
Version of

Elements
Translated in

Fawāʾid-i Jamālī
Commented in

Sharḥ-i Ashkāl al-taʾsīs
Tuḥfat al-Raʾīs Sharḥ ashkāl al-tasīs
Notes

According to Samarqandī, he wrote the treatise as an introduction and a tool for the arithmetical sciences based on selected basic theorems from Euclid's Elements.
ismi_id

149474

Manuscript Witnesses

45 witnesses:
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Lucknow_Lucknow University Library_unknown (Lucknow Univ.)_45453
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Mahachqala_unknown repository is in Mahachqala_unknown collection is part of unknown repository is in Mahachqala_226
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Mosul_unknown repository is in Mosul_Hajiyat madrasa (Mosul)_51
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Mosul_unknown repository is in Mosul_Nuʿmaniyya Madrasa (Mosul)_91
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Najaf_Āyyat Allāh al-Ḥakīm al-`Āmma_NONE_139
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Huntington_193
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Princeton_Princeton University_Garrett_373Y
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Princeton_Princeton University_Garrett_4350Y
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_St. Petersburg_Institute of Oriental Studies (St. Petersburg)_Arabic Manuscripts_B 2563
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_St. Petersburg_Institute of Oriental Studies (St. Petersburg)_Arabic Manuscripts_B 821
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Tashkent_Institute of Oriental Studies (Tashkent)_UNKNOWN (Tashkent)_3055
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Tashkent_Institute of Oriental Studies (Tashkent)_UNKNOWN (Tashkent)_3373
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Tehran_Muza (Muza-yi Iran-i bastan)_NONE_4330
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Tehran_Sipahsalar [Sepahsālār]_NONE (Sipahsalar)_205
Ashkāl al-taʾsīs_Vatican City_Vatican Apostolic Library_Sbath Collection (Vatican)_820