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1. Or 14270

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14270
Title:
Three technological treatises
Scope & Content:
Volume containing three technological treatises: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات, ff. 2v-14r); Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), San‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر, ff. 14r-21r); Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد), a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+73+i

2. Or 14270, ff 2v-14r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14270, ff 2v-14r
Title:
Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with eighteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title page gives the title wrongly as كتاب أرشميدس في عمل الساعات (Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-sā‘āt). This early known copy of the te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:
ff. 2v-14r

3. Or 14270, ff 14r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
Title:
San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The text in this copy...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:

Ff. 14r-21r

4. Or 14270, ff 21v-73r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
Title:
al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
Scope & Content:
Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables: Geometric diagram (f. 22v); Geometric diagram (f. 24r); Geometric diagram (f. 24v); Geometric diagra...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:
ff. 21v-73r