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Or 13127
- Record Id:
- 032-002479495
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002479495
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000038406.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023511680.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 13127
- Title:
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Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyahكتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية
Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
- Scope & Content:
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An early copy of Aḥmad ibn Abī Sa‘d al-Harawī's (أحمد بن أبي سعد الهروي; d. ca AD 1000) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as Kitāb fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyah (كتاب في الأشكال الكرية) or simply as Kitāb al-ukar (كتاب الأكر; Sphaericorum), based on an earlier translation by Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá al-Māhānī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن عيسى الماهاني; d. ca 888).
This copy was completed at Damascus on 4 Rabī‘ II 548/29 June 1153 by Isma‘īl (إسمعيل), who copied the text from a manuscript owned by the mathematician Najm al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Sarī ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (d. 548/1154; see colophon of f. 51r, transcribed below). The marginalia contain many comments by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ.
Contents:
- Introduction of Aḥmad ibn Abī Sa‘d al-Harawī (ff. 1v-2r);
- Book 1 or Prolegomena (المقدمات; ff. 2r-36r);
- Book 2 (المقالة الثانية من كتاب منالاوس في الكريات; ff. 36v-45r);
- Book 3 (المقالة الثالثة من كتاب منالاوس في الكريات; ff. 45v-51r);
- 90 spherical figures headed 'Figures of the Book of Spheres by Menelaus, transcribed from an uncorrected copy but translated according to the first edition' (أشكال كتاب الأكر لمنالاوس نقل من نسخة لم يصلح بل ترجمت على الوضع الأول); these are the same figures as those found in the main text (ff. 51v-55r);
- Eight lines of text concerning scholastic theology (kalām) in response to a passage from al-Sayyid al-Sharīf ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī's (1340-1413) Kitāb al-mawāqif fī ‘ilm al-kalām and some notes on fractions of dry measures (the qadaḥ and ardabb) both in the hand of their author Fatḥ al-Dīn ibn Muẓaffar al-Ṣiddīqī, writing at a study session (ḥalqah) at the Mosque of Sulṭān al-Ghūrī in Cairo, in 915 AH/AD 1509-10 (f. 55v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
كتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية
قال أحمد بن أبي سعيد الهرّوي إن الطريقة التي سلكها مانالاوس في هذا الكتاب
عجيبة لم يسبق إليها ولا عرف لأحد من المتقدمين في هذا المعنى شيئًا بتةً فترى أنّه
استشعر أن نوع هذا العم من الهندسة مفرد برأسه ...
Ends (f. 51r, lines 1-5):
د من و
متى كانت النسبة من أصغر
إلى أعظم ومتى كان يد صلع
مربع أو به ضلع مربع وذلك
ما أردنا أن يبين
Colophon (f. 51r, lines 6-14):
تمت المقالة الثالثة من كتاب منالاوس
في الأشكال الكرية وتم الكتاب بأسره
وذلك في يوم الأثنين رابع ربيع الآخر سنة
ثمان وأربعين وخمس مائة للهجرة النبوية
الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته على سيدنا محمد النبي وآله الطاهرين وسلم تسليمًا
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
قال إسمعيل نسخت هذه النسخة بدمشق من نسخة سيدنا الشيخ الأجل
الإمام العالم الفاضل الزاهد نجم الدين سيد الحكماء بديع
الزمان أبي الفتوح أحمد بن السري أطال الله بقاه وحرس نعماه
Colophon to the figures (f. 55r, lines 1-2):
تمت أشكال كتاب كريات منالاوس وهي تسعون شكلًا
الحمد لله وحده وصلوته على محمد وآله وسلم تسليمًا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002479495
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002479495
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. ii+55+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000038406.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1153
- End Date:
- 1153
- Date Range:
- 4 Rabī‘ II 548
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 225 x 160 mm leaf [160 x 113 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: No ruling visible; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink faded to brown
Decoration: The text (ff. 1v-51r) contains 118 spherical figures
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Extensive water damage rarely causing illegibility; the folios have been rebound on guards
Marginalia: Corrections; paragraph numeration; and notes on the text attributed to Najm al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sarī ibn al-Ṣalāḥ
Seals: Two seals on f. 1r
- Custodial History:
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This copy was completed at Damascus on 4 Rabī‘ II 548/29 June 1153 by Isma‘īl (إسمعيل), presumably a student of the mathematician Najm al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sarī ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (d. 548/1154) whose copy of the text he made his transcription from (see colophon of f. 51r).
The title page (f. 1r) contains at least one owner's inscription and two seals (from top down):
- Imām Ḥusayn (?; rest of name illegible): his inscription, undated;
- Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī (مصطفى صدقي, d. 1183/1769-70), Ottoman bibliophile and poet, his seal dated 1179/1765-66 (f. ; see Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database no. 4);
- Seal with Kufic inscription ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله, belonging to Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī (مصطفى صدقي, d. 1183/1769-70), Ottoman bibliophile and poet (see Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database no. 3).
Folio 55v bears a note by Fatḥ al-Dīn ibn Muẓaffar al-Ṣiddīqī, written at the Mosque of Sulṭān al-Ghūrī in Cairo, in 915 AH/AD 1509-10.
- Administrative Context:
- Damascus
- Publications:
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Editions of other recensions of the Arabic text:
- Menelaus of Alexandria, Die Sphärik von Menelaos aus Alexandrien in der Verbesserung von Abū Naṣr Manṣūr b. ʻAlī b. ʻIrāq mit Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Textes bei den islamischen Mathematikern, ed. and trans. by Max Krause (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1936)
- Menelaus of Alexandria, Kitāb Mānālāwus in Majmūʿ al-rasāʼil ḥarrarahā Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (Ḥaydarābād al-Dakkan: Dāʼirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmānīyah, 1358-1359 [1939-1940])
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)