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This collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay Özdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, Gülru Necipoğlu, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The chapters interpreting this fascinating document are followed, for the first time, by a facsimile, transcription, and translation, as well as drawings of incised construction lines invisible in the photographed facsimile. This publication intersects with the current interest in Islamic geometrical patterning as an inspiration for tessellation and parametrically derived forms in contemporary architecture and the arts. It aims to make this celebrated source more accessible, given its multifaceted relevance to historians of art, architecture, and science, as well as mathematicians, physicists, artists, and architects. For those who wish to obtain a copy of the full, unedited original book manuscript of Alpay Özdural, where he discusses the mathematical properties of all geometrical constructions in the Anonymous Compendium as well as the step-by-step method for drawing each one, his work is available online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5255416

Geometry --- Iran --- Generation of geometric forms --- Shapes --- Geometry in art --- Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) --- Manuscripts, Persian --- Persian manuscripts --- Persian literature --- Forms (Shapes) --- Shape --- Surfaces --- Geometric forms, Generation of --- Geometrical drawing --- Geometry, Descriptive --- Repeat patterns (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament --- Pattern perception --- Design --- Bibliothèque nationale de France. --- Paris. BnF --- Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France --- Biblioteca Nacional de Francia --- BNF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) --- Faguo guo jia tu shu guan --- French National Library --- Hpha-ran-siʼi Rgyal-gñer Dpe-mdzod-khaṅ --- France. --- Bibliothèque nationale (France) --- Bibliothèque de France --- Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa. --- Art [Islamic ] --- Festschriften