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IO Islamic 923, ff 23v-51r
- Record Id:
- 040-002713969
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002713928
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022555247.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023602345.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 923, ff 23v-51r
- Title:
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Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-ayyām wa-al-layālī
كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الأيام والليالي
Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the De diebus et noctibus (Περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ νυκτῶν; كتاب في الأيام والليالي) a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC).
The text is divided into two books (مقالتان):
- Book One (المقالة الأولى; ff. 23v-36v);
- Book Two (المقالة الثانية; ff. 36v-50r).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 51r) following the text. At the end of the text is a collation note in Persian dated 13 Sha‘bān without mention of the year (f. 50r), probably 1198 (2 July 1784).
Contents:
Begins (f. 23v, lines 2-4):
كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الأيام والليالي وفي بعض النسخ في
الليل والنهار والكتاب مقالتان وثلثة وثلثون شكلًا صدر
الكتاب الشمس يتحرك حركة معتدلة ضد حركة الكل على منطقة البروج
Ends (f. 49v, line 12-f. 50r, line 2):
واجتمعت منها قسي هي أضعاف ح ه وبقيت قوس لرم أن يعد تلك
القوس الدورة ويعد مجموع تلك القسي فيكون قوس ح ه مقدره للدورة
وكانت غير مقدرة هذا خلف فإذن الحكم ثابت وذلك ما أردناه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002713928
040-002713969 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 923 : Arabic (and one Persian) versions of six Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn…
IO Islamic 923, ff 23v-51r : Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-ayyām wa-al-layālīكتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الأيام… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002713928[0003]/040-002713969
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 923
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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ff. 23v-51r
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022555137.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1784
- Date Range:
- 13 Sha‘bān 1198
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Edition:
- Theodosius, Kitāb al-Ayyām wa-al-layāli, 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])
Kunitzsch, Paul and Richard Lorch, 'Theodosius, De diebus et noctibus', in Suhayl 10 (2011), pp. 9-46
Edition of original Greek text:
- Theodosii De habitationibus liber: De diebus et noctibus libri duo, Rudolf Fecht, trans, (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1927)
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)