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1. Add MS 14332

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Title:
Four treatises on conic sections
Scope & Content:
A collection of four mathematical treatises on conic sections. The mansucript was completed on 26 December 1834 (see colophon to Item 4, fol. 193v, line 13).The final eight folios (ff. 194v-201v) contain diagrams omitted in their proper places in the texts. Contents: (1) Clavius, Christophorus ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dec 1834
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+201+v

2. Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r

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Title:
al-Shakl al-thāmin min al-maqālah al-ūlá min kitāb al-maqāyīs الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس And four excerpts from Euclidis elementorum libri VI Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي
Scope & Content:
Proposition 8 from Book 1 of Gnomonices libri octo (Rome: Apud F. Zanettum, 1581, pp. 26-37) by Christophorus Clavius (Christoph Klau, كلاويوس, d. 1537 or 38; see fol. 3r, line 9), translated into Arabic by Mu‘tamad Khān (معتمد خان) Rustam Beg al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī ibn Qubād Beg, titled Dīyāna...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dec 1834
Extent:

Ff. 2v-22r

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

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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
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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

4. Add MS 14332, ff 32v-37v

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Title:
Maqālah fī rasm al-qutū‘ al-thalāthah مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm ابن سنان ,إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah (إبراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرّة, d. 946) on the three types of conic section: the hyperbola, parabola and ellipse. The diagrams are missing in the text and may be found on ff. 194v-201v. Begins (fol. 32v, lines 5-8): قال إبراهيم بن سنان هذه...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dec 1834
Extent:

Ff. 32v-37v

5. Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v

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Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v
Title:
Kitāb al-makhrūṭāt كتاب المخروطات 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, and are presented here in the edition/translation by Muḥyī al-Dīn Y...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dec 1834
Extent:

Ff. 38r-193v