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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Geometry--Early works to 1800

31. IO Islamic 1270, ff 122r-123v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1270, ff 122r-123v
Title:
Faṣl fī muqaddimat ḍil‘ al-musabba‘ فصل في مقدمة ضلع المسبع Alhazen ابن الهيثم
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the construction of regular heptagon by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040). Begins (f. 122r, line 3): إن أرشميدس بنى ضلع المسبع على المربع الذي قدمه ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 122r-123v

32. Or 11210

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11210
Title:
A treatise on arithmetic and geometry, with its commentary Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
Scope & Content:
Rough holograph copies of a short treatise on arithmetic and mensuration (geodesy) in verse form (urjūzah) entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, ff. 2r-27r), followed by a commentary upon it entitled Ibāḥat al-bāḥah (إباحة الباحة, ff. 28r-109v, both ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
24 Jumada 836
Extent:

ff. i+109+i

33. Or 11313, ff 23r-43v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 23r-43v
Title:
al-Risālah al-ʻAlāʼīyah fī al-masāʼil al-ḥisābīyah الرسالة العلائية في المسائل الحسابية Turkistānī, Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad تركستاني، سعيد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic and geometry composed in 711/1312 by Jamāl al-Dīn Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣaddiq al-Sughdī al-Turkistānī (جمال الدين سعيد بن محمد بن مصدق السغدي التركستاني) for his patron ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Faryūmalī (? علاء الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمود الفري...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 748
Extent:
Ff. 23r-43v

34. Or 13127

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13127
Title:
Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyahكتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
Scope & Content:
An early copy of Aḥmad ibn Abī Sa‘d al-Harawī's (أحمد بن أبي سعد الهروي; d. ca AD 1000) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as Kitāb fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyah (كتاب في الأشكال الكرية) or simply as Kit...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Rabī‘ II 548
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+55+ii

35. Sloane MS 3034

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3034
Title:
Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:
A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 16...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
2 Feb 1646
Extent:

Codex; ff. xxvii+12+ii