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Add MS 23570, ff 30r-62r
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- 040-002746666
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- 032-002746380
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100022586849.0x000001
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100023431932.0x000008
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- Add MS 23570, ff 30r-62r
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Kitāb al-ukar كتاب الأكر
Theodosius ثاوذوسيوس
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Arabic version of the De sphaericis (كتاب الأكر) by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδοìσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The preface (f. 1v, lines 3-5, transcribed below) states that it was translated from Greek into Arabic by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912), up to Chapter 3, figure 5, at the order of Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad (أبو العباس أحمد) son of the caliph al-Mu‘taṣim bi-llāh (المعتصم بالله; reg. 833-842), that the rest was translated by another, and that the translation was corrected by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة; d. 901).
The text was copied at Yazd in Jumādá II 1014/October 1605 by Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyá al-Astar’ābādī (ابن عبد الرحيم أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي; see colophon, f. 62r, lines 8-10, transcribed below). On the title page (f. 7r) and on f. 30r, where the title of this text appears on the lower half of the page, the title and author are given incorrectly as كتاب الاكبر لتأدووسي اوس. Both the title page and the title appearing on f. 30r were written by a hand later than that of the main scribe.
The text is divided into three chapters (مقالات):
- Chapter One (المقالة الأولى ; ff. 30v-37v);
- Chapter Two (المقالة الثانية ; ff. 37v-50v);
- Chapter Three (المقالة الثالثة ; ff. 51r-62r).
Numerous diagrams. Notes on smaller slips of paper have been bound into the volume as folios 31, 33, 38, 39 and 42.
Begins (f. 30v, lines 2-6):
هذا كتاب الأكر لثاوذوسيوس وهو ثلث مقالات وتسعة وخمسون شكلًا
وفي بعض النسخ بنقصان شكل في العدد وقد أمر بنقله من اليونانية إلى العربية أبو العباس
أحمد بن المعتصم بالله فتولى نقله قسطا بن لوقا البعلبكي إلى الشكل الخامس من المقالة الثالثة
ثم تولى باقيه غيره وأصلحه ثابت بن قرة المقالة الأولى اثنان وعشرون شكلًا الحدود الكرة شكل
يحيط به سطح في داخله نقطة ...
Ends (fol. 62r, lines 3-5):
فيكون قوس ن ح شبيهة بقوس ك ل فقوس ه ح أعظم من قوس من دائرتها
شبه قوس ك ل وأيضًا قوس م ط يشبه ه د فقوس ك ط أعظم من قوس من دائرتها
شبه قوس ه ر وذلك ما أردناه ...
Colophon (fol. 62r, lines 5-10):
... تمت المقالة الثالثة وبتمامها
تم كتاب الأكر لثاوذوسيوس وهو تسعة
وخمسون شكلًا وفي بعض النسخ ثمانية وخمسون
وكاتبه صاحبه أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي سود
في دار العبادة يزد ثاني
الجماديين سنة أربع عشر وألف
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Add MS 23570 : Mathematical compendium
Add MS 23570, ff 30r-62r : Kitāb al-ukar كتاب الأكرTheodosius ثاوذوسيوس - Hierarchy:
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Ff. 30r-62r
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022582060.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1605
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- Jumādá II 1014
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Yazd
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Edition:
- Theodosius, Sphaerica: Arabic and medieval Latin translations, Paul Kunitzsch and Richard Lorch, eds, (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2010)
Edition of original Greek text:
- Theodosius, Sphaerica, J.L. Heiberg, ed. (Berlin: Weidmannsche, 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
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