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IO Islamic 1270

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032-002839702

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032-002839702

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ISAD(G)

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IO Islamic 1270

Title:

Compendium of texts on mathematics and optics mostly by Alhazen (ابن الهيثم)

Scope & Content:

Collection of twenty-one treatises on mathematics, optics and related subjects.

Contents:

(1) Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرّة), Kitāb fī sanat al-shams bil-irṣād (كتاب في سنة الشمس بالإرصاد) (ff. 1v-9v);
(2) Abū Naṣr ibn ‘Irāq (أبو نصر بن عراق), Istikhrāj mā bayna al-markaz min al-Majisṭī al-shāhī (استخراج ما بين المركز من المجسطي الشاهي) (f 10r);
(3) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Qawl fī aḍwā’ al-kawākib (قول في أضواء الكواكب) (ff. 10v-12r);
(4) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Qawl fī ḍaw’ (قول في الضوء) (ff. 12v-17v);
(5) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah fī al-marāyā al-muḥriqah bil-quṭū‘ (مقالة في المرايا المحرقة بالقطوع) (ff. 18r-21r);
(6) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah fī al-marāyā al-muḥriqah bil-dā’irah (مقالة في المرايا المحرقة بالدائرة) (ff. 21v-25r);
(7) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Qawl fī al-makān (قول في المكان) (ff. 25v-27v);
(8) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Qawl fī shakal Banī Mūsá (قول في شكل بني موسى) (ff. 28r-32r);
(9) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah fī ḍaw’ al-qamr (مقالة في ضوء القمر) (ff. 32v-47v);
(10) Omar Khayyam (عمر الخيامي), Maqālah fī al-jabr (مقالة في الجبر) (ff. 48r-56r);
(11) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah fī misāḥat al-mujassam al-mukhāfī (مقالة في المساحة المجسّم المخافي) (ff. 56v-69v);
(12) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah mustiqṣāh fī al-shakl al-hilālīyah (مقالة مستقصاة في الشكل الهلالية) (ff. 70r-78v);
(13) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf (مقالة في صورة الكسوف) (ff. 79r-86v);
(14) Sijzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (سجزي، أحمد بن محمد), Thabat barāhīn ba‘ḍ ashkāl kitāb Ūqlīdis fī al-Ūṣūl (ثبت براهين بعض أشكال كتاب أوقليدس في الأصول) (ff. 87r-100r);
(15) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Qawl fī hay’at al-‘ālam (قول في هيئة العالم) (ff. 101r-116v);
(16) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Risālah fī barkār al-dawā’ir al-‘iẓām (رسالة في بركار الدوائر العظام) (ff. 116v-118r);
(17) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Qawl fī mas’alah ‘adadīyah mujassama (قول في مسئلة عددية مجسمة) (ff. 118v-119);
(18) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Qawl fī qismat al-khaṭṭ alladhī ista‘maluhu Arshimīdas fī al-Kurah wa-al-usṭūwānah (قول في قسمة الخط الذي استعمله أرشميدس في الكرة والأسطوانة) (f. 119v);
(19) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Mas’alah fī ikhtilāf manẓar al-qamr (مسئلة في اختلاف منظر القمر) (f. 120);
(20) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Qawl fī istikhrāj mas’alah ‘adadīyah (قول في استخراج مسئلة عددية) (f. 121);
(21) Alhazen (ابن الهيثم), Faṣl fī muqaddimat ḍil‘ al-musabba‘ (فصل في مقدمة ضلع المسبع) (ff. 122-123).

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Codex; ff. iii+123+v

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

16th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 280 x 115 mm leaf [220 x 80 mm written]

Foliation: India Office foliation in Western Arabic numerals stamped in black ink;

Ruling: Misṭarah; 37 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with diagrams and overlinings in red

Binding: British Museum binding

Condition: Some waterstains; because of extensive worm damage (not now visible) the entire manuscript has been disbound and each folio lined with silk, inlaid in western paper and attached to guards before being rebound

Marginalia: Very few

Seals: f. 1r

Custodial History:

East India Company Library, its seal (f. 1r).

Source of Acquisition:

From the library of Richard Johnson (1753-1807), incorporated into the collection of the East India House.

Finding Aids:

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 734, pp. 212-14

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Subjects:

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800