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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IO Islamic 1148 Language Arabic Level [40] File

1. IO Islamic 1148, ff 1v-63r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1148, ff 1v-63r
Title:
تحرير المجسطي Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
Scope & Content:
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī''s (AD 1201-1274) edition (تحرير) of the Arabic translation of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD c 809-873). The copy ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
6 Muḥarram 722
Extent:
ff. 1v-63r

2. IO Islamic 1148, ff 63v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1148, ff 63v-67v
Title:
Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah كتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
Scope & Content:
An early copy of Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī's (محيي الدين يحيى بن محمد بن أبي الشكر المغربي; d. between 680/1281 and 690-1291) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

ff. 63v-67v