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IO Islamic 1249, ff 36v-56r
- Record Id:
- 040-002560219
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002560174
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022539457.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023285040.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1249, ff 36v-56r
- Title:
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تحرير المناظر لأقليدس
Taḥrīr al-manāẓir li-Uqlīdis
Euclid أقليدس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the Optica (المناظر) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) presented here in the edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 56r) following the text.
Begins (ff. 36v, lines 2-4):
تحرير المناظر لأقليدس و هو أربعة وستون شكلًا صدر الكتاب
العين يحدث باستمداد من الأجرام النيرة في الجسم الشفاف المتوسط
بينهما وبين المبصرات كالهواء وماشاكله شعاعا كما تحدثه الأجرام النيرة
Ends (f. 55r, lines 5-9):
... وكذلك
اللتان يوثرهما القطران فادن الأضلاع
تساوية في الروية وكذلك القطران
وذلك ما أردناه ...
Colophon (f. 55r, lines 8-9):
... تم كتاب المناظر
لأقليدس وهو سد شكلًا
Below the colophon is a collation note in Persian dated 9 Jumādá I, without mention of the year.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002560174
040-002560219 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 1249 : Arabic versions of seven Greek treatises on mathematics edited byṬūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad…
IO Islamic 1249, ff 36v-56r : تحرير المناظر لأقليدسTaḥrīr al-manāẓir li-UqlīdisEuclid أقليدس - Hierarchy:
- 032-002560174[0002]/040-002560219
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ff. 36v-56r
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022536511.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1784
- Date Range:
- Jumādá I 1198
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Edition and translation of Arabic text:
- The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics (Kitāb Uqlīdis fī ikhtilāf al-manāẓir), 2 vols, Elaheh Kheirandish, ed. and trans. (New York: Springer, 1999)
- Euclid, Kitāb al-Manāẓir, 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])
Edition of original Greek text:
- Euclidis Opera omnia. Vol. VII, Euclidis Optica, opticorum recensio Theonis, catoptrica, cum scholiis antiquis, I.L. Heiberg, ed. (Liepzig: Teubner, 1895)
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)