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Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r
- Record Id:
- 040-002621534
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002614540
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022551638.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023587816.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r
- Title:
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Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة
Hero of Alexandria إيرن الإسكندراني
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the Mechanica (Μηχανικά) by the mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria (Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; إيرن; fl. 1st century). Only fragments of the original Greek text survive. The beginnings of Chapters Two and Three (ff. 18r, line 2 and 39v, line 2) give the title of the Arabic version as 'On Lifting Heavy Things (في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة)', while in the colophon of Chapter Three (f. 50r, line 3) it is given as 'On Hauling the Heavy (في جر الثقيل)'. This copy is defective at the beginning, missing the first three paragraphs of the printed edition, and beginning with paragraph four (Les mécaniques, Carra de Vaux, ed. and trans., 1988, p. 5 of Arabic text).
The treatise contains numerous diagrams illustrating machines for moving stones and other heavy objects.
It is divided into three chapters:
Chapter One (المقالة الأولى; ff. 3r-17v [defective at beginning]);
Chapter Two (المقالة الثانية [mistakenly called (sic) المقالة الثالث in its colophon]; ff. 18r-38v);
Chapter Three (المقالة الثالثة; ff. 39v-50r)
Contents:
Begins (f. 3r, lines 1-2, defective at beginning):
فلتكن الدوائر غير المتساوية وليكن مراكبها على علامتي أ ب وليكن أعظم الدوائرتين
الدائرة التي مركزها على علامة أ ففي هذه الدوائر لا يتم الترتيب الذي في الدوائر المتساوية
Ends (f. 49v, line 21-f. 50r, lines 1-3):
... فيكون قد
حفرنا اللولب الإثنى الحفر الذي تريد عمله وبعد بعد (!) صورة الشكل فراغنا
من جميع المقالة الثالثة من كتابنا هذا وهو الكتاب والصورة في الصفحة
الأخرى تمت المقالة الثالثة من كتاب إيرن في جر الثقيل
Colophon (f. 50r, lines 3-7):
... وتم الكتاب
وكلمت (!) أشكاله بجميعا (!) بحمد الله تعالى
وحسن توفيقي وصلواته
على سيدنا محمد وآله
أجمعين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002614540
040-002621534 - Is part of:
- Add MS 23390 : Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة Hero of Alexandria إيرن الإسكندراني…
Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r : Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلةHero of Alexandria إيرن… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002614540[0001]/040-002621534
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 23390
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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ff. 3r-50r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022551545.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Edition and translation:
- Hero of Alexandria, Les mécaniques: ou, l'élévateur des corps lourds. Héron d'Alexandrie; texte arabe de Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā, B. Carra de Vaux, ed. and trans., (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1988)
Edition and translation of fragmentary original Greek text:
- Hero of Alexandria, Opera quae supersunt omnia; Vol 2-Fasc I; Mechanica et Catoptrica, Wilhelm Schmidt, ed., Ludwig Leo Michael Nix, trans., (Leipzig: Teubner, 1900)
Study:
- van de Velde, Hans, 'From Qusṭā b. Lūqā to Carra de Vaux. On the History of the Edition and Translation of the Barulcus, also called 'Mechanic', by Heron of Alexandria' Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 1 (2010), 95-100
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Heron, of Alexandria, mathematician and engineer, c 10-c 70
- Subjects:
- Mechanics--Early works to 1800
