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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Hastings, Warren, governor-general of Bengal, 1732-1818

1. Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v
Title:
Qawl lil-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Haytham fī shakl Banī Mūsá قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan) ابن الهيثم ,الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040) on a proposition from the prolegomena of the Banū Mūsá (بنو موسى, fl. 9th century) to the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC)....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dec 1834
Extent:

Ff. 22v-32v

2. IO Islamic 461

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 461
Title:
Seven treatises on mathematics, astronomy and statics
Scope & Content:
The script, ornamentation and binding of the volume indicate that it is part of a set comprising also manuscripts IO Islamic 923, IO Islamic 924 and IO Islamic 1249, all of which were transcribed in 1198/1784, probably for their owner Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal from 1772 to 1785...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1198
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+208+i

3. IO Islamic 924

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 924
Title:
كتاب أبلونيوس في المخروطات Kitāb Abulūnīyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic. The edition is called Taḥrīr makhrūṭāt (تحرير مخروطات), indicating ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Ramaḍān 1198
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+205+viii; one loose leaf

4. IO Islamic 1249

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1249
Title:
Arabic versions of seven Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
First part of a collection of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) editions (تحارير) of the so-called intermediate books (متوسطات), Arabic versions of ancient Greek mathematical texts and responses to them which were meant to be read after Euclid...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Jumādá I 1198
Extent:

Codex; ff. viii+240+viii

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