Abstract:
The central library at the University of Otago has a finely-written Arabic manuscript: Dunedin De Beer Collection MS 98. That contains chapters 1 to 3 of 13 chapters of Euclid's Elements, in the Ishaq-Thabit translation. A few annotations (in Arabic, Persian, and English) are written in the margins, including on the last page the Arabic date 873 A.H. (1468 A.D.) Alos on that last page there is a Persian note dated 924 A.H. (1518 A.D.), telling that Sultan Mahmud Shah gifted this manuscript to a scholar named Hussein.
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