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Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909
Title:: Geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements
Scope & Content:: Front flyleaf ii-v contains a magical text based on the names of the Companions of the Cave (أصحاب الكهف, see Qur’ān 18:9-26). Ff. 1ar and 1av contain an astrnomical table. The first and by far the longest text in this manuscript was completed on 5 Jumādá II 1214/4 November 1799 (see its coloph...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+173+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 1v-152v
Title:: Taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير أصول الهندسة والحساب Euclid أقليدس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the fundamental introduction to geometry, the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The edi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Ff. 1v-152v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 153v-156v
Title:: Three short texts related to Euclid's Elements
Scope & Content:: Three short texts related to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) annotated edition (تحرير) of the Arabic version of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول), perhaps by al-Ṭūsī himself. 　 Contents: (1) Statement on ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Ff. 153v-156v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 157r-158v
Title:: Ziyādāt fī maqālah al-khāmisah min kitāb Uqlīdis زيادات في المقالة الخامسة من كتاب أقليدس Jawharī, al-‘Abbās ibn Sa‘īd جوهري، العباس بن سعيد
Scope & Content:: Three propositions to be added to Book Five of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the astronomer and mathematician al-‘Abbās ibn Sa‘īd al-Jawharī (العباس بن سعيد الجوهري, fl. ca 830). 　 Begins (f. 157r, 2-5): هذه زيادات للعباس بن سعيد في المقالة الخامسة من...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Ff. 157r-158v

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