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IO Islamic 924
- Record Id:
- 032-002559966
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002559966
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022532234.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023525918.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 924
- Title:
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كتاب أبلونيوس في المخروطات
Kitāb Abulūnīyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt
Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
- Scope & Content:
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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. The edition is called Taḥrīr makhrūṭāt (تحرير مخروطات), indicating that this is the edition (تحرير) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274; see f. 181, line 5 and Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 5, p. 141), based on the translation made for the Banū Mūsá (fl. 9th century; see f. 42r, line 9).
This copy was completed in Ramaḍān 1198/July-August 1784 (see colophon on f. 204v, transcribed below), probably for Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal from 1772-1785. The script, ornamentation and binding of the volume indicate that it is part of a set comprising manuscripts IO Islamic 923 and IO Islamic 1249.
Contents:
- المقالة الأولى (Book 1; ff. 1v-42r);
- المقالة الثانية (Book 2; ff. 42r-67v);
- المقالة الثالثة (Book 3; ff. 67v-104v);
- المقالة الرابعة (Book 4; ff. 104v-121v);
- المقالة الخامسة (Book 5; ff. 121v-159v);
- المقالة السادسة (Book 6; ff. 159v-181v);
- المقالة السابعة (Book 7; ff. 181v-204v).
The diagrams referred to in the text are found on fold outs placed near the end of each book (ff. 41r, 66r, 103r, 120r, 158r, 180r and 196r).
There is an unfoliated blank leaf between ff. 195 and 196, and the text resumes with a basmallah on f. 197r after the diagrams on f. 196r, both of which features give the appearance that a new book begins on f. 197r. Since, however, there is no colophon at the end of the text on f. 195v and the colophon on fol. 204v (transcribed below) indicates the end of the Conics, the text on ff. 197r-204v is either a continuation of Book 7, basmallah notwithstanding, or a postscript.
The colophon on f. 204v is followed by further geometrical proposition by the hand of the copyist. Its relation to the rest of the text is unclear.
Between front papers i and ii are a fragment of the spine and loose leaf of paper bearing a brief note in Persian.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-2):
المقالة الأولى من كتاب أبلونيوس في المخروطات ستون شكلًا
الخط الواصل من رأس المخروط وأيته نقط على بسيطه يقع على بسيط
Ends (f. 204v, lines 1-2):
مربعهما أعظم من فصل ما بين مربعي رح ومنتصبه ومبين أيضًا أن فصل ما بين مربعي
ي ط ومنتصبه أعظم من فصل ما بين مربعي ث خ ومنتصبه ...
Colophon (f. 204v, lines 2-3):
... تم المخروطات يست (؟) ويكم (؟)
رمضان المبارك سنة 1198 هجري مقدس
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002559966
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002559966
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. vi+205+viii; one loose leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022532234.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1784
- Date Range:
- Ramaḍān 1198
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 216 x 136 mm leaf [125 x 80 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; there is an unfoliated leaf between ff. 195 and 196, so although the last foliated leaf is numbered 204, there are in fact 205 folios
Ruling: Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nasta‘līq
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: Every opening and every page has a border in gold, black and red ink; the first opening (ff. 1v-2r) is extensively illuminated in gold, red, green and blue
Binding: Hybrid binding with European and Islamic-style features; gilt tooled; leather doublure
Condition: Excellent condition; book block re-sewn, boards reattached and spine replaced
Marginalia: Very few and all appear to be by the copyist
Seals: Ff. 1r and 204v
- Custodial History:
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From the library of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor-General of Bengal (1773-1785) incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1809 (see front papers ii recto and vi verso);
- East India Company Library, its seal (ff. 1r and 204v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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East India Company Library
- Administrative Context:
- India
- Finding Aids:
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Loth, Otto, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (London : Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 745, p. 218
- Publications:
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Edition of Original Greek text and Arabic version (not Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's edition):
- Apollonius de Perge,Coniques: Texte grec et arabe etabli, traduit et commenté, 6 vols, Roshdi Rashed, Micheline Decorps-Foulquier, and Michel Federspiel, eds (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008-2009)
Study:
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1971). pp. 136-143
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)