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EUCLID (fl. 300 BC). Elementa geometria, in Arabic. Translation ascribed to Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d.1274). Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1594.
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EUCLID (fl. 300 BC). Elementa geometria, in Arabic. Translation ascribed to Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d.1274). Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1594.
2° (335 x 230mm). Arabic type in 2 sizes by Robert Granjon. Diagrams and mathematical figures throughout, all pages within double-rule border, woodcut headpieces. (Title with a paper frame apparently added at the time of binding, occasional light browning.) 17th- or 18th-century vellum, later red morocco spine label (some soiling, spine darkened, front endpaper with small loss). Provenance: 'H.A.' (small initials on the title in an early hand) -- Duncan Black Macdonald (bookplate presenting the work to:) -- Case Memorial Library -- Hartford Theological Seminary (blindstamps; press-marks).
FIRST EDITION IN ARABIC, 'POSSIBLY THE MOST REMARKABLE OF ALL PRINTED EDITIONS OF EUCLID' (Thomas-Stanford, p.17). The text is an important and detailed Arabic recension ascribed (probably wrongly, cf. DSB) to the 13th-century Persian astronomer and philosopher, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Only two manuscripts survive, both in Florence at the Laurenziana. It was printed at the press established by Ferdinando de' Medici under Pope Gregory XIII to disseminate works in oriental languages. Variants are known: with or without a Latin title, and with 12 chapters (last leaf numbered 400) or with 13 chapters (last numbered leaf 453). The present copy is in 12 chapters and with the title in Arabic only. Adams E-990; Brunet II: 1087; Honeyman 1015; Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 175; cf.Thomas-Stanford 46a.
2° (335 x 230mm). Arabic type in 2 sizes by Robert Granjon. Diagrams and mathematical figures throughout, all pages within double-rule border, woodcut headpieces. (Title with a paper frame apparently added at the time of binding, occasional light browning.) 17th- or 18th-century vellum, later red morocco spine label (some soiling, spine darkened, front endpaper with small loss). Provenance: 'H.A.' (small initials on the title in an early hand) -- Duncan Black Macdonald (bookplate presenting the work to:) -- Case Memorial Library -- Hartford Theological Seminary (blindstamps; press-marks).
FIRST EDITION IN ARABIC, 'POSSIBLY THE MOST REMARKABLE OF ALL PRINTED EDITIONS OF EUCLID' (Thomas-Stanford, p.17). The text is an important and detailed Arabic recension ascribed (probably wrongly, cf. DSB) to the 13th-century Persian astronomer and philosopher, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Only two manuscripts survive, both in Florence at the Laurenziana. It was printed at the press established by Ferdinando de' Medici under Pope Gregory XIII to disseminate works in oriental languages. Variants are known: with or without a Latin title, and with 12 chapters (last leaf numbered 400) or with 13 chapters (last numbered leaf 453). The present copy is in 12 chapters and with the title in Arabic only. Adams E-990; Brunet II: 1087; Honeyman 1015; Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 175; cf.Thomas-Stanford 46a.
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