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Add MS 23570, ff 70r-75r
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- 040-002746668
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002746380
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100022586857.0x000001
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- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023431932.0x00000a
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- Add MS 23570, ff 70r-75r
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Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-layl wa-al-nahār
كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الليل والنهار
Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
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Arabic version of the De diebus et noctibus (Περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ νυκτῶν; كتاب في الليل والنهار) a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاوذوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The translator is said to be Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (إسحق بن حنين, d. c 910; see f. 70v, line 2, transcribed below), the son of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق, d. 873).
The text is divided into two books (مقالتان), but this copy is defective at the end, and contains only the first ten propositions (out of a total of twelve) of Book One. The text contains eleven diagrams.
F. 70r contains notes on hadith material in Arabic and Persian. The title page (f. 7r) and f. 70r give the author's name as ثاودوسي اوس. Both the title page and the title appearing on f. 70r were written by a hand later than that of the main scribe.
Contents:
Begins (f. 70v, lines 2-5):
كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الليل والنهار ترجمه إسحق بن حنين
قال الشمس يتحرك حركة معتدلة ضد حركة الكل في دائرة وسط البروج وهذه الدائرة تسمي
الشمسية زمان النهار هو الزمان الذي من طلوع الشمس إلى غروبها وزمان الليل هو الزمان الذي
من غروب الشمس إلى طلوعها ...
Ends (f. 75r, lines 17-20):
... ولم يكن لها طلوع ولا غروب على خط معدل النهار
لم يكن اعتدال وبمثل ذلك نبين إنا إن فرضنا غروبًا ما على نقطة ط وطلوعًا ما على نقطة ك فإن الليلة التي
بعد غروب ط لا يكون مساوية لليوم الذي قبلها ولا لليوم الذي بعدها وذلك ما أردنا أن نبين
Colophon (f. 75r, lines 21-22):
تمت الرسالة بعون الله وحسن توفيقه
وكاتبه صاحبه أبو القاسم يحيى
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Add MS 23570 : Mathematical compendium
Add MS 23570, ff 70r-75r : Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-layl wa-al-nahārكتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الليل… - Hierarchy:
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Ff. 70r-75r
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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:
- 1610
- Date Range:
- 1605-1610
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Edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's edition of the Arabic text:
- 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])
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
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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