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Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 1v-152v
- Record Id:
- 040-003315582
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003315581
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100032993078.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066866505.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 1v-152v
- Title:
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Taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير أصول الهندسة والحساب
Euclid أقليدس
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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Arabic version of the fundamental introduction to geometry, the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The edition was completed on 22 Sha‘bān 646/10 December 1248 (see f. 152v, lines 8-11, transcribed below).
The text is divided into fifteen books (مقالات), the last two of which (Books 14 and 15) are correctly said not to have been written by Euclid, and al-Ṭūsī attributes both to the astronomer and mathematician Hypsicles of Alexandria (Ὑψικλῆς, إبسقلاوس; fl. first half of 2nd century BC; see ff. 147r, line 8 and 151r, line 12).
The text contains numerous diagrams.
This copy was completed on 5 Jumādá II 1214/4 November 1799 by Rukn al-Dīn (ركن الدين; see colophon, f. 152r, lines 12-14, transcribed below).
Contents:
- Book One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 1v-29r);
- Book Two (المقالة الثانية, ff. 29r-36v);
- Book Three (المقالة الثالثة, ff. 36v-48v);
- Book Four (المقالة الرابعة, ff. 48v-55r);
- Book Five (المقالة الخامسة, ff. 55r-62v);
- Book Six (المقالة السادسة, ff. 62v-76v);
- Book Seven (المقالة السابعة, ff. 76v-83v);
- Book Eight (المقالة الثامنة, ff. 83v-89r);
- Book Nine (المقالة التاسعة, ff. 89r-95r);
- Book Ten (المقالة العاشرة, ff. 95r-116r);
- Book Eleven (المقالة الحادية عشر, ff. 116r-128r);
- Book Twelve (المقالة الثانية عشر, ff. 128r-137r);
- Book Thirteen (المقالة الثالثة عشر, ff. 137r-147r);
- Book Fourteen (المقالة الرابعة عشر [unfilled space left blank for title], ff. 147r-151r);
- Book Fifteen (المقالة الخامسة عشر, ff. 151r-152v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي منه الابتداء وإليه الانتهاء وغيره حقائق الأنباء وبيده ملكوت الأشياء
وصلوته على محمد وآله الأصفياء وبعد فلما فرغت من تحرير المجسطي رأيت أن أحرر كتاب
أصول الهندسة والحساب المنسوب إلى أقليدس الصوري ...
Ends (f. 152v, lines 8-11):
... وإذ وفقنا الله في تحرير هذا الكتاب بحمد الله هو خير موفق
ومعين
قد اتفق فراغ المصنف ما تعمده بغفرانه واسكنه فراديس جنانه من تحرير
هذا الكتاب وتصنيفه في الثاني وعشرين من شعبان المعظم سنة ست وأربعين وستمائة
Colophon (f. 152r, lines 12-15):
وقد فرغ أضعف العباد ركن الدين من تحرير بعض
أجزائه خامس جمادى الثاني سنة ألف ومائتين
وأربعة عشر بعون الله تعالى
وحسن توفيقه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003315581
040-003315582 - Is part of:
- Delhi Arabic 1909 : Geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements
Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 1v-152v : Taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير أصول الهندسة والحسابEuclid… - Hierarchy:
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Ff. 1v-152v
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100066866505.0x000003
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1799
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 5 Jumādá II 1214
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Editions and partial editions:
- Euclid, Kitāb taḥrīr uṣūl li-Ūqlīdis min ta’līf Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. Euclidis Elementorum geometricorum libri tredecim ex traditione doctissimi Nasiridini Tusini nunc primum Arabicè impressi, (Romæ: In Typographia Medicea, 1594)
- Euclid, Kitāb taḥrīr al-Ūqlīdis lil-Ṭūsī. Sittat maqālāt min kitāb Taḥrīr al-Uqlīdis. Tarjamah-i shish maqālah-i kitāb-i taḥrīr-i Uqlīdis (Kalkatah: Hindustani Press, 1824)
- Euclid, Kitāb taḥrīr uṣūl Ūqlīdis ta’līf Khūjah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, (Fās: al-Maṭba‘ah al-ʻĀmirah, 1293 [1876])
Edition of original Greek text:
- Euclidis Opera Omnia, Johan Ludvig Heiberg (ed.), vols. 1-4, (Lipsiae: Teubner, 1883-85)
Studies:
- De Young, Gregg, 'The Taḥrīr Kitāb Uṣūl Uqlīdis of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī: Its Sources', Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 18 (2008/09), pp. 1-71
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1974). pp. 111-13
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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