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Add MS 23387
- Record Id:
- 032-002747229
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002747229
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100022599883.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023486515.0x000002
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- Add MS 23387
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Taḥrīr kitāb uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير كتاب أصول الهندسة والحساب
Euclid أقليدس
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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Arabic version of the fundamental introduction to geomentry, 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 edition was completed on 22 Sha‘bān 646/10 December 1248 (see f. 216v, line 10, transcribed below).
The text is divided into fifteen books (مقالات), the last two of which (Books 14 and 15) are correctly said not to have been written by Euclid, and al-Ṭūsī attributes both to the astronomer and mathematician Hypsicles of Alexandria (Ὑψικλῆς, إبسقلاوس; fl. first half of 2nd century BC).
The copy was completed on 15 Rabī‘ II 656/21 April 1258 by an anonymous scribe (see scribe's colophon, f. 216v, lines 12-13, transcribed below). Although al-Ṭūsī did not die until 1274, the scribe clearly believed he was already dead as indicated by the use of the phrase 'may God sanctify his soul and illuminate his tomb (قدس الله روحه ونور ضريحه; see title page, f. 2r and f. 216v, line 9, both transcribed below)'.
The text contains numerous diagrams.
Title page (f. 2r):
كتاب أوقليدس
تحرير المولى الإمام العلامة سلطان الحكماء المدققين نصير
الحق والملة والدين قدس الله روحه ونور ضريحه
Contents:
- Book One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 2v-38r);
- Book Two (المقالة الثانية, ff. 38r-48r);
- Book Three (المقالة الثالثة, ff. 48r-66v);
- Book Four (المقالة الرابعة, ff. 66v-77v);
- Book Five (المقالة الخامسة, ff. 77v-89v);
- Book Six (المقالة السادسة, ff. 89v-107r);
- Book Seven (المقالة السابعة, ff. 107r-117v);
- Book Eight (المقالة الثامنة, ff. 117v-126r);
- Book Nine (المقالة التاسعة, ff. 126r-134r);
- Book Ten (المقالة العاشرة, ff. 134r-163v);
- Book Eleven (المقالة الحادية عشر, ff. 163v-182r);
- Book Twelve (المقالة الثانية عشر, ff. 182r-194v);
- Book Thirteen (المقالة الثالثة عشر, ff. 194v-208r);
- Book Fourteen (المقالة الرابعة عشر, ff. 208r-214r);
- Book Fifteen (المقالة الخامسة عشر, ff. 214r-216v).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي منه الابتداء وإليه الانتهاء وعنده حقائق الأنباء وبيده ملكوت
الأشياء وصلواته على محمد وآله الأصفياء وبعد فلما فرغت من تحرير المجسطي رأيت
أن أحرر كتاب أصول الهندسة والحساب المنسوب إلى أوقليدس الصوري ...
Ends (f. 216v, lines 6-11):
وإذ قد وفقني الله تعالى في تحرير هذا
الكتاب حسب ما قصد به فلأختم الكلام
بحمد الله خير موفق ومعين وفرغ المصنف
من تحريره قدس الله روحه ونور ضريحه
في 22 شعبان المبارك سنة 646 هجرية
والحمد لله رب العالمين
Colophon (f. 216v, lines 12-15):
وكان الفراغ من نسخه ومقابلته على نسخة الأصل في خامس عشر
ربيع الآخر سنة 656 رحمه الله ورحم من رحم عليه
والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته على سيدنا محمد وآله أجمعين وسلم تسليمًا
وبالله التوفيق
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- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- 032-002747229
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iii+216+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022599883.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1258
- End Date:
- 1258
- Date Range:
- 15 Rabī‘ II 656
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 165 x 127 mm leaf [112 x 83 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah (?); 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings, punctuation and diagrams in red
Binding: Morocco leather Islamic binding without flap; blind tooled medallion, pendants and borders on both boards
Condition: Slight waterstains, f. 2 mutilated and repaired, some small tears repaired
Marginalia: Many notes by various hands; one in Syriac (f. 43r) and one in Karshūnī (f. 78r)
Seals: Ff. 2r, 4r, 38r, 48r, 66v, 77v, 89v, 107r, 117v, 126r, 134r, 163v, 182r, 194r, 194v, 208r, 214r and 216r
- Custodial History:
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- Anonymous inscription, dated 18 Rabī‘ II 1029/23 March 1620 (f. 2r);
- Robert Taylor, his seal, undated (f. 2r);
- ‘Alā’ al-Dīn (علاء الدين), his seal, undated (ff. 2r, 4r, 38r, 48r, 66v, 77v, 89v, 107r, 117v, 126r, 134r, 163v, 182r, 194r, 194v, 208r, 214r and 216r);
- Anonymous seal, dated 1025 AH/AD 1616-17 (ff. 38r, 48r, 66v, 77v, 89v, 107r, 117v, 126r, 134r, 163v, 182r and 216v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mrs Taylor, April 1860
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), Item 1334, pp. 618-19
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Edition of original Greek text:
- Euclidis Opera Omnia, Johan Ludvig Heiberg (ed.), vols. 1-4, (Lipsiae: Teubner, 1883-85)
Study:
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1974). pp. 111-13
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)