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Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
- Record Id:
- 040-002839769
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002360268
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023620524.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023698323.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
- Title:
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San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر
Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC).
The text in this copy differs from that in Add MS 23391, ff 21r-25v and edited by Hill, Shehadeh and Lorch (1994-95).
Begins (f. 14r, lines 5-8):
... صنعة الزامر لاٮلٮٮٮوس
النجار الهندسي يتخذ صندوق
مهندم مزفت أو مرصص من
داخله كله طوله أربعة أذرع
Ends (f. 20v, line 16-20v, line 18):
فإنه يقطر منه شيء منسبة (!) باللؤلؤة والصوبة الحرعة (!) وهيدمها والضوء
الانتركة (!) على النعار بالرصاص ويوسع الجرعة إذا أردت بالشريط
التسادح الناعم ولا تضع النعار الأعلى كرسيه لئلا يبعد وهذه صورته
The treatise contains seven diagrams:
Internal mechanisms within a water-clock (f. 15r);
Internal mechanisms for a pipe-organ within a water-clock (f. 16r);
Internal mechanisms within a water-clock (f. 16v);
Disc indicating the signs of the zodiac and the corresponding Syro-Macedonian months (f. 17r);
Base (?) of a water-clock (f. 18v);
Base (?) of a water-clock (f. 20r);
Base (?) of a water-clock (f. 21r).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002360268
040-002839769 - Is part of:
- Or 14270 : Three technological treatises
Or 14270, ff 14r-21r : San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامرApollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي - Hierarchy:
- 032-002360268[0002]/040-002839769
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 14270
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Ff. 14r-21r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000094.0x000095
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1292
- End Date:
- 1292
- Date Range:
- 28 Shawwāl 691
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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Edition, translation and study:
Donald R. Hill, Kamal Shehadeh and Richard P. Lorch, 'Construction of a Fluting Machine by Apollonius the Carpenter', Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 9 (1994-95), 326-56
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
