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Add MS 14332
- Record Id:
- 032-002036763
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002036763
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0000fe
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023990881.0x000002
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 14332
- Title:
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Four treatises on conic sections
- Scope & Content:
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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 (كلاويوس الفرنجي), Proposition 8, Book 1 of the Gnomonices (الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس), and four excerpts from Clavius' Euclidis elementorum libri VI (ff. 2v-22r);
- (2) Ibn al-Haytham (ابن الهيثم), Treatise on a Proposition by the Banī Mūsá (قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى; ff. 22v-32v);
- (3) Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm (ابن سنان ,إبراهيم), Treatise on the Construction of the Three Sections (مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة; ff. 32v-37v);
- (4) Apollonius of Perga (أبلونيوس), Conics (كتاب المخروطات; ff 38r-193v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r : al-Shakl al-thāmin min al-maqālah al-ūlá min kitāb al-maqāyīs الشكل الثامن من المقالة…
Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v : Qawl lil-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Haytham fī shakl Banī Mūsá قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم…
Add MS 14332, ff 32v-37v : Maqālah fī rasm al-qutū‘ al-thalāthah مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثةIbn Sinān, Ibrāhīm…
Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v : Kitāb al-makhrūṭāt كتاب المخروطاتApollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
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Codex; ff. v+201+v
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1834
- End Date:
- 1834
- Date Range:
- 26 Dec 1834
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 278 x 200 mm leaf [215 x 115 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic-Indic pagination in black ink
Ruling: Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 6 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nasta‘līq
Ink: Black
Binding: British Museum binding of red leather with blind tooled decoration on covers
Condition: Excellent
Marginalia: Occasional marginal corrections in Arabic; marginal and interlinear notes in English
- Source of Acquisition:
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Presented by Mrs Anne Gillies Tytler, widow of John Tytler Esq. late Superintendent of the Native Medical Institution at Calcutta, 7 June 1843 (see fol. 1r)
- Administrative Context:
- India
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), Item 975, pp. 443-44
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)