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IO Islamic 1249, ff 111v-116r
- Record Id:
- 040-002560245
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002560174
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022539503.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023285040.0x000005
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1249, ff 111v-116r
- Title:
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كتاب إسقلاوس في المطالع
Kitāb Isqilawus fī maṭāli‘
Hypsicles إبسقلاوس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the Anaphoricus (Ἀναφορικός; في المطالع) by the astronomer and mathematician Hypsicles of Alexandria (Ὑψικλῆς; إبسقلاوس [here written إسقلاوس and إيسقلاوس]; first half of 2nd century BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; d. ca 912), revised by al-Kindī (الكندي; d. ca 873) and presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 116r) following the text.
Begins (f. 111v, lines 2-5):
كتاب إسقلاوس في المطالع مما أصلحه الكندي وهو من نقل قسطا بن لوقا
البعلبكي وهو يشتمل على ثلث م
Ends (115r, lines 2-4):
... وإذا عرفنا مطالع الجزء
وكانت الزيادات معلومة فمطالع جميع الأجزاء معلومة وذلك
ما أرادناه ...
Colophon (115r, lines 4-5):
... تم كتاب إيسقلاوس
في المطالع
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002560174
040-002560245 - 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 111v-116r : كتاب إسقلاوس في المطالعKitāb Isqilawus fī maṭāli‘Hypsicles إبسقلاوس - Hierarchy:
- 032-002560174[0005]/040-002560245
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 1249
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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ff. 111v-116r
- 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:
- Hypsicles, Kitāb al-Maṭāliʿ, 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, Arabic version, and German translation:
- Die Aufgangszeiten der Gestirne, Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Philologisch-Historische Klasse, 3. Folge, Nr.62, V. de Falco and M. Krause, eds (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, 1966)
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)