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Sloane MS 3034
- Record Id:
- 040-002115418
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000653.0x0002dc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023511051.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 3034
- Title:
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Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق
Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
- Scope & Content:
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A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 1643 (f. 7v).
The text were copied on 2 February 1646 in Leiden by Nicolaus Petri of Aleppo (نقلاوس بن بطرس; see title page, f. 1r). The Arabic text was presumably copied from Leiden MS Or. 14 (see Witkam, Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden, vol. 1, 2007, pp. 19-20), and the text of Golius' Latin translation is said to have been copied from a manuscript owned by the mathematician Samuel Keihel (see title page to the Latin text, f. 7v).
The title page to the Arabic text (f. 1r) reads:
2 Febr. st. n. 1646
Leidae hoc descripsit
Nicolaus Petri
Aleppensis
cuius ms. versio addita est à
clariss. viro Dno Jacobo
Golio, et à me descrita
iuxta exemplar Dni Samuelis
Keihelii mathematici
ingeniosissimi
The title page to the Latin text (f. 7v) reads:
Tractatus
Hazeni Hei-
temidae Arabis
De accuratè invenienda
Elevatione
Poli
ex Arabico in Lati-
num conversus a
clariss. viro
Iacobo Golio
Profess. mathem. in Aca-
dem. Lugd. Bat.
Anno 1643
The texts have two diagrams each (ff. 5v, 6v, 10v, and 11v).
Contents:
1) Ibn al-Haytham (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq (مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق; ff. 2r-7r)
2) Jacobus Golius, Tractatus Hazeni Heitemidae arabis de accuratè invenienda elevatione poli (ff. 7v-12r).
Arabic text begins (f. 2r, lines 2-6):
مقالة للحسن بن الحسين (!) بن الهيثم في استخراج ارتفاع القطب
على غاية التحقيق ليس واحد من المعاني السماوية المدركة بالإرصاد
يستغني في رصده عن استعمال ارتفاع القطب عن أفق
موضع الرصد ولا يتم وجود الحركات السماوية إلا بالآلات وبتحقيق
وضعها على الأفق ...
Arabic text ends (f. 7r, lines 8-17):
... فالساعات التي توخذ من البنكام
تكون محققة والساعات التي تستخرج من الارتفاع ومن موضع الكوكب
غير متيقن فالزمان الذي يستخرج بالحساب من ارتفاع الكوكب
ليس يكون محققًا ولا موثوقًا بصحّته فهذا الذي بيناه هو الطريق
إلى معرفة ارتفاع القطب على
غاية التحقيق وذلك ما قصدنا
في هذه المقالة تمت
والحمد لله رب
العالمين
تم
Latin text begins (f. 8r, lines 1-7):
Heitemidae seu Al-
hazeni Tractactus de accuratè
invenienda elevatione poli.
Rerum astronamicarum, quae qui-
dem per observationes indagari solent, vix utlae (!)
quae ad hoc ipsuim non requirat Altitudinem Po-
li ...
Latin text ends (f. 12r, lines 21-26):
Cum itaque locus stellae certus et accuratus haberi nequeat, nec
tempus ex altitudine stellae computandum certò ac praecisè
definiri potest. Atque haec quidem ad cognoscendam ac-
curatiorem Elevationem Poli nobis declaranda
fuerunt.
Finis
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002115418 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 3034 : Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[3041]/040-002115418
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. xxvii+12+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000653.0x0002dc
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Latin - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1646
- End Date:
- 1646
- Date Range:
- 2 Feb 1646
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 250 x 150 mm leaf [164 x 110 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; pagination in black ink; front papers are paginated in balck ink pp. 946-993, but not continuously or in order
Ruling: Margins ruled, but not lines; 25 lines per page and vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm (Arabic); 32 lines per page and vertical spacing 21 lines per 10 cm (Latin)
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Nicolaus Petri (نقلاوس بن بطرس) of Aleppo
Ink: Black ink, with one book title in red (f. 8r)
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Excellent condition; some bleed-through of ink, minor foxing
Marginalia: Three marginal correction by hand of scribe (ff. 4r, 6r and 11r)
Seals: None
- Administrative Context:
- Leiden
- 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 404, p. 191
- Publications:
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Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1974). p. 366
Witkam, Jan Just, Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden, vol. 1 (Leiden: Ter Lugt: 2007) pp. 19-20
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)