Hādhā ḥāshiyat al-ustādh al-fāḍil al-shaykh al-ʻAṭṭār ʻalá sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs lil-Qāḍī Zādah fī al-handasah : manuscript, [19th century?].

"A short treatise on the commentary on the Ashkāl al-taʼsīs of Samarḳandī by Mūsá ibn Maḥmūd al-Rūmī Ḳāḍīzāda." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone, name spelled out in roman. Cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains rough geometrical diagrams.Egypt, where it remained unfinished for a long while until its completion was facilitated."Text not rubricated, has overlinings in black; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; each kurrāsah numbered with notation: ʻAṭṭār/Ashkāl/K. [X]; colophon describes author's travels in compiling this work: "I compiled it during many travels, without stopping at what had already been written. I began to compose it in Cairo, Egypt, then traveled to Constantinople where I compiled some more, then I moved to Alexandria ...[?]... where I compiled even more. It was not completed until I returned toDate of 19th cent. based on author's death date.King, Survey,"A short treatise on the commentary on the Ashkāl al-taʼsīs of Samarḳandī by Mūsá ibn Maḥmūd al-Rūmī Ḳāḍīzāda." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundEgyptian scholar; teacher of Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ al-Ṭahṭāwī; supporter of Muḥammad ʻAlī and his reforms; died in office as head shaykh of al-Azhar mosque and its university.Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof