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IO Islamic 1148, ff 63v-67v
- Record Id:
- 040-002558395
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002487824
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022508694.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023667258.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1148, ff 63v-67v
- Title:
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Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah كتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية
Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
- Scope & Content:
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An early copy of Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī's (محيي الدين يحيى بن محمد بن أبي الشكر المغربي; d. between 680/1281 and 690-1291) 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-kurīyah (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).
Contents:
- Chapter 1 (ff. 63v-65v);
- Chapter 2 (المقالة 2; ff. 65v-67r);
- Chapter 3 (المقالة 3; ff. 67r-v)
The text appears to be defective at its end.
Begins (f. 63b, lines 1-2):
... هذا كتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية تهذيب العبد الفقير إلى الله محمد بن أبي الشكر المغربي الشكل الأول
The script is so small and hastily written as to be almost illegible at the end.
There are 117 diagrams of triangles projected on spheres.
Folio 68r contains a diagram apparently unrelated to the texts before or after it.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002487824
040-002558395 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 1148 : Three treatises on astronomy and geometry
IO Islamic 1148, ff 63v-67v : Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah كتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكريةMenelaus… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002487824[0002]/040-002558395
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 1148
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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ff. 63v-67v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022506131.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Studies and 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])
- Pinel, P. and A. Taha, 'Le Travail d'Al-Tusi sur les Sphériques de Ménélaus: établissement critique du text, apport mathématique, interprétation astronomique', Farhang: Quarterly Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies 15-16 (2003) pp. 33-111
Study:
- Steinschneider, Moritz, 'Die 'mittleren' Bücher der Araber und ihre Bearbeiter', Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, Historisch-literärische Abteilung 10 (1865) pp. 456-98
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)