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IO Islamic 1249, ff 87v-110r
- Record Id:
- 040-002560227
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002560174
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022539473.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023285040.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1249, ff 87v-110r
- Title:
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كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوع والغروب
Kitāb Awtūlūqūs fī al-ṭulūʿ wa-al-ghurūb
Autolycus أوطولوقس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the De ortibus et occasibus (Περὶ ἐπιτολῶν καὶ δύσεων; في الطلوع والغروب [f. 87v, line 2, transcribed below] or في الطلوعات والغروبات [f. f. 109r, line 10, transcribed below]) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطولوقس; fl. 300 BC), revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901) and presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 110r) following the text.
Begins (f. 87v, lines 2-5):
كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوع والغروب من إصلاح ثابت ونو مقالتان
وستة وثلثون شكلًا المقالة الأولى يه شكلًا المقالة الثانية كا شكلًا
صدر يقال لبعض طلوعات الكواكب والغروباتها وخصوصًا الثوابت
إنها خفية ولبعضها إنها ظاهرة ...
Ends (f. 109r, lines 6-8):
... ويكون كل واحد من قوسي ء م ط ك ح ل خمسة بروج
وقوس ل ح م و هي قوس الخفاء أعظم من برجين
بقدر قوس ك ط و ذلك ما أردناه ...
Colophon (f. 109r, lines 8-10):
... تمت
المقالة الثانية وتم بتمامها كتاب أوطولوقس
في الطلوعات والغروبات
Below the colophon is a Persian collation note dated 10 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
040-002560227 - 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 87v-110r : كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوع والغروبKitāb Awtūlūqūs fī al-ṭulūʿ… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002560174[0004]/040-002560227
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 1249
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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ff. 87v-110r
- Digitised Content:
- 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
- Access:
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Edition:
- Autolycus, Kitāb al-Ṭulūʿ wa-al-ghurūb, 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:
- Autolyci de sphaera quae movetur liber. De ortibus et occasibus libri duo una cum scholiis antiquis e libris manu scriptis edidit, Friedrich Otto Hultsch, ed., (Liepzig: Teubner, 1885)
Edition and translation of original Greek text:
- The Books of Autolykos. On a Moving Sphere, and On Risings and Settings, Frans Bruin and Alexander Vondjidis, eds. and trans., (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1971)
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)