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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923
Title:: Arabic (and one Persian) versions of six Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Second 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 and astronomical texts and Arabic responses to them which were ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá I-Sha‘bān 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+101+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 1v-10r
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-kurrah al-mutaḥarrikah تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة Autolycus أوطولوقس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De sphaera quae movertur (Περὶ κινουμένης σφαίρας;كتاب الكرة المتحركة) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطولوقس; fl. 300 BC), translation from the Greek revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901). The diag...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 1v-10r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 11v-21r
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-masākin تحرير كتاب المساكن Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De habitationibus (Περὶ οἰκήσεων; كتاب المساكن), a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; c 820-912). The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 21r) following the te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 11v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 23v-51r
Title:: Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-ayyām wa-al-layālī كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الأيام والليالي Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De diebus et noctibus (Περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ νυκτῶν; كتاب في الأيام والليالي) a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The text is divided into two books (مقالتان): Book One (المقالة الأولى; ff. 23v-36v); Book Two (المقالة الثانية; f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Sha‘bān 1198
Extent:: ff. 23v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 52v-69r
Title:: Fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-bu‘dayhimma في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما Aristarchus أرسطرخس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De magnitudinibus et distantiis solis et lunae (περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης; في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما) by Aristarchus of Samos (أرسطرخس, Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, ca 310-ca 230 BC). The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 69r) following the text. At th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 52v-69r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r
Title:: Maqalah-’i avvalī az Kitāb-i Uqlīdas مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:: A Persian version of Book One of the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; كتاب أقليدس في الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The diagrams are collected on three fold outs (ff. 74r, 89r and 95r). Begins (f. 71v, lines 1-2: مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل وهفت شكل اس...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: ff. 71v-95r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 98v-101r
Title:: كتاب أقليدس في الثقل والخفة وقياس الأجرام بعضها إلى بعض Kitāb Uqlīdas fī al-thiqal wa-al-khiffah wa-qiyās al-ajrām ba‘ḍihā ilá ba‘ḍ Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:: A work on the principles of specific gravity probably falsely attributed to the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The translation, presumabely from the Greek now lost, is said to have been corrected by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة; d. 901; f. 98v, line 3, tra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: ff. 98v-101r

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

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039
Title:: Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: (1) Anonymous, Untitled treatise on mathematics (ff. 2v-14v); (2) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (جمشيد الكاشي), Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (مفتاح الحساب; ff. 15v-122r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1041
Extent:: Codex; ff. ix+123+ix

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on mathematics
Scope & Content:: Anonymous and untitled treatise on mathematics containing numerous diagrams. The copy was completed at Ajmer (أجمير) on Tuesday 10 Rabī‘ I 1041/7 October 1631 by Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mirzā Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh Kāshānī (محمد أمين بن مرزا محمد فضل الله كاشاني; see colophon, f. 14v, lines 15-21 and se...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Rabī‘ I 1041
Extent:: Ff. 2v-14v

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