Treatise on the mensuration of conic sections by Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah (إبراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرّة, d. 946).The text contains seven diagrams, which are collected on a fold out (f. 197r) at the end of the text.Begins (f. 191v, lines 2-3):قد كنت علمت كتابًا في مساحة هذا القطع قديمًا وغيرت في شكل منه سأتمصاعت النسخة المصلحة والنسخة القديمة ...Ends (ff. 196r, lines 11-196v, line 1):فإذن نسبة قطعة ا ح ذ إلى قطعة ب ج د كنسبة ح ج إلى حرمتناه بنسبة إذا ثنبتبالتكرير كانت كنسبة ح ج إلى حر وعلى هذا المثال نبين أن كل قطعتين من قطعمكافي هذه حالهما وذلك مكان غرضنا أن نبينه ...Colophon (f. 196v, lines 1-3):... تم كتاب إبراهيم بن سنانبن ثابت في مساحة القطع المكافي والحمد لله رب العالمين حمد الشاكرينوصلواته على سيدنا محمد وآله وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيلFf. 191v-197r
Arabic version of the
Dimensio circuli(Κύκλου μέτρησις; في تكسير الدائرة) by the mathematician (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC).The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 238r) following the text.Begins (f. 231v, line 11-f. 232r, line 2):... مقالة أرشميدس في تكسيرالدائرة وهو ثلثة أشكال كل دائرة فهي مساوية لمثلث قائم الزواية يكونأحد ضاحية المحيطين بالزاوية القائمة مساويا لنصف قطر سطح تلكالدائرة ...Ends (f. 237r, lines 9-11):فنسبة مربع القطر إلى سطحالدائرة نسبة ثمانية وعشرين إلى اثنين وعشرين بل نسبة أربعة عشر إلى أحدعشر وذلك ما أردناه ...Colophon (f. 237r, lines 11-12):... وهذا إتمام القول في تكسير الدائرة وليقطع الكلامحامدين لله تعالى على حسن توفيقهff. 231v-238r
A Persian version of Book One of the
Elements(Στοιχεῖα; كتاب أقليدس [في الأصول]) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The diagrams are collected on three fold outs (ff. 74r, 89r and 95r).Begins (f. 71v, lines 1-2:مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل وهفت شكل است ودر نسخهٔ ثابتچهل وهشت زيادهٔ يك شكل و ان شكل 2 است عادت چنان رفته استEnds (f. 94v, lines 6-7)... هشتم پس از نير قايمهٔ با شدوهسمين بود مراد ماff. 71v-95r
First part of a collection of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) editions (تحارير) of the so-called intermediate books (متوسطات), Arabic versions of ancient Greek mathematical texts and responses to them which were meant to be read after Euclid's
Elementsand in preparation for Ptolemy's
Almagest. The second part of this collection is found in manuscript IO Islamic 923.The script, ornamentation and binding of the volume indicate that it is part of a set comprising also manuscripts IO Islamic 923 and IO Islamic 924. Since the latter was transcribed in 1198/1784, probably for Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal from 1772 to 1785 (see front paper ii recto), the collation notes in this manuscript dated to the month of Jumādá I without indication of the year probably refer to 1198 (March-April 1784).Contents:(1) Euclid (أقليدس),
Data(تحرير كتاب المعطيات لإقليدس; ff. 1v-35r);(2) Euclid (أقليدس),
Optica(تحرير المناظر لإقليدس; ff. 36v-56r);(3) Euclid (أقليدس),
Phenomena(كتاب ظاهرات الفلك لأقليدس; ff. 57v-86r);(4) Autolycus (أوطولوقس),
De ortibus et occasibus(كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوع والغروب; ff. 87v-110r);(5) Hypsicles (إبسقلاوس),
Anaphoricus(كتاب في المطالع; ff. 111v-116r);(6) Archimedes (أرشميدس),
De sphaera et cylindro(كتاب الكرة والأسطوانة; ff. 118v-231v);(7) Archimedes (أرشميدس),
Dimensio circuli(مقالة أرشميدس في تكسير الدائرة; ff. 231v-238r).Codex; ff. viii+240+viiiMaterial: PaperDimensions: 209 x 120 mm leaf [130 x 58 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 12 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cmScript:
Nasta‘līqInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in redDecoration: Every opening and every page has a border in gold, black and red ink; the first opening (ff. 1v-2r) is extensively illuminated in gold, red, green and blueBinding: Hybrid binding with European and Islamic-style features; gilt tooled; leather doublureCondition: Excellent condition; book block re-sewn, boards reattached and spine replacedMarginalia: Very few and all appear to be by copyistSeals: Ff. vii recto and 237v
Second part of a collection of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) editions (تحارير) of the so-called 'intermediate [books] (متوسطات)', Arabic versions of ancient Greek mathematical and astronomical texts and Arabic responses to them which were meant to be read after Euclid's
Elementsand in preparation for Ptolemy's
Almagest. The first part of this collection is found in manuscript IO Islamic 1249.The script, ornamentation and binding of the volume indicate that it is part of a set comprising also manuscripts IO Islamic 924 and IO Islamic 1249. Since the latter was transcribed in 1198/1784, probably for Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal from 1772 to 1785 (see front paper ii recto), the collation notes in this manuscript dated to the months of Jumādá I and Sha‘bān without indication of the year probably refer to 1198 (March-April and June-July 1784).A descriptive title in Persian is found on front paper ii recto, and tables of contents in Persian and English are given on front paper iii recto.Contents:(1) Autolycus (أوطولوقس),
De sphaera quae movetur(تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة; ff. 1v-10r);(2) Theodosius (ثاوذوسيوس),
De habitationibus(تحرير كتاب المساكن; ff. 11v-21r);(3) Theodosius (ثاوذوسيوس),
De diebus et noctibus(كتاب في الأيام والليالي; ff. 23v-51r);(4) Aristarchus (أرسطرخس),
De magnitudinibus et distantiis solis et lunae(في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما; ff. 52v-69r);(5) Euclid (أقليدس),
Elements, Book 1 (مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس; ff. 71v-95r)(6) Euclid (أقليدس),
De levi et ponderoso(في الثقل والخفة وقياس الأجرام بعضها إلى بعض; ff. 98v-101r).Codex; ff. vi+101+ivMaterial: PaperDimensions: 209 x 120 mm leaf [130 x 58 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 12 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cmScript:
Nasta‘līqInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in redDecoration: Every opening and every page has a border in gold, black and red ink; the first opening (ff. 1v-2r) is extensively illuminated in gold, red, green and blueBinding: Hybrid binding with European and Islamic-style features; gilt tooled; leather doublureCondition: Excellent condition; book block re-sewn, boards reattached and spine replacedMarginalia: Very few and all appear to be by copyistSeals: Ff. 1r and 101v
Watermark: Crown with grapes.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Date in colophon: qad intahá mā utīḥa jamʻuhu fī ghurrat al-awwal min al-akhīr min al-thānī ʻashar min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [25 September 1786?]."A treatise on number theory." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 114.
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 الأشياءوصلوته على محمد وآله الأصفياء وبعد فلما فرغت من تحرير المجسطي رأيت أن أحرر كتابأصول الهندسة والحساب المنسوب إلى أقليدس الصوري ...Ends (f. 152v, lines 8-11):... وإذ وفقنا الله في تحرير هذا الكتاب بحمد الله هو خير موفقومعينقد اتفق فراغ المصنف ما تعمده بغفرانه واسكنه فراديس جنانه من تحريرهذا الكتاب وتصنيفه في الثاني وعشرين من شعبان المعظم سنة ست وأربعين وستمائةColophon (f. 152r, lines 12-15):وقد فرغ أضعف العباد ركن الدين من تحرير بعضأجزائه خامس جمادى الثاني سنة ألف ومائتينوأربعة عشر بعون الله تعالىوحسن توفيقهFf. 1v-152v
Three propositions to be added to Book Five of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC)
Elements(Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the astronomer and mathematician al-‘Abbās ibn Sa‘īd al-Jawharī (العباس بن سعيد الجوهري, fl. ca 830).Begins (f. 157r, 2-5):هذه زيادات للعباس بن سعيد في المقالة الخامسة من كتاب أقليدس نريد أن نبينأن المقادير إلى نسبتها واحدة إلى الثاني والثالث إلى الرابع هي التي إذا أخذ للأولوالثالث أضعاف متساوية وأخذ للثاني والرابع أضعاف متساوية أيّ الأضعافكانت وجدت أضعاف الأول والثالث ...Ends (f. 158v, lines 1-4):... برهانه أنقدر ه أكثر نسبة إلى ح من ر إلى ط وه ور وهما أضعاف متساوية لا وج فنسبةا إلى ح أكثر من ج إلى ط وح وط هما أضعاف متساوية لقدري ب ود فا أكثرنسبة إلى ب من ج إلى د وذلك ما أردنا أن نبينColophon (f. 158v, line 4):... تمت الكتابFf. 157r-158v
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone, name spelled out in roman. Cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains rough geometrical diagrams.Egypt, where it remained unfinished for a long while until its completion was facilitated."Text not rubricated, has overlinings in black; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; each kurrāsah numbered with notation: ʻAṭṭār/Ashkāl/K. [X]; colophon describes author's travels in compiling this work: "I compiled it during many travels, without stopping at what had already been written. I began to compose it in Cairo, Egypt, then traveled to Constantinople where I compiled some more, then I moved to Alexandria ...[?]... where I compiled even more. It was not completed until I returned toDate of 19th cent. based on author's death date."A short treatise on the commentary on the Ashkāl al-taʼsīs of Samarḳandī by Mūsá ibn Maḥmūd al-Rūmī Ḳāḍīzāda." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermark: GiorMagnani Almasso with scrollwork. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 3748.Contains geometrical diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; borders in blue and red; marginal notes in hand of copyist.For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 731 and 815,2."A compendium of arithmetic." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; eagle with initials A and FNF in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Tables rubricated.Consists entirely of sexagesimal multiplication tables used to facilitate astronomical calculations.
Three technical treatises (رسالات) on the construction of musical organs attributed to author Mūrisṭus (مورسطس), variously and tentatively identified as Ariston (the dedicatee of the
Pneumaticaof Philo of Byzantium, d. c 220 BC), Ameristos (an early Greek mathematician mentioned in Proclus' [d. 485] commentary on Euclid's
Elements), and Ctesibius (d. c 222 BC; see Farmer,
Organ of the Ancients, 1931, pp. 16-20). The treatises have been edited by Cheikho ('Thalāth maqālāt ‘arabīyah al-munaghghimah', 1906) and the first two treatises have been translated into English by Farmer (
Organ of the Ancients, [treatise two] pp. 63-70 and [treatise one] 128-135).Contents:(1)
Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-būqī(صنعة الأرغين البوقي; ff. 1v-5r);(2)
Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-zamarī(صنعة الأرغين الزمري; ff. 6v-10v);(3)
Ṣan‘at al-juljul(صنعة الجلجل; ff. 11v-13r).One diagram at the end of each treatise: ff. 5r, 10v and 13r. Folios 1r, 5v, 6r and 11r are blank.Codex; ff. iii+13+xxiiMaterial: PaperDimensions: 240 x 174 mm leaf [166 x 80 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: Black ink, with rubricated titles, headings and references to numbers in diagrams, and diagrams in redBinding: British Museum bindingCondition: Excellent condition
Abstract: Collection of poems arranged in five sections by genre, including qaṣīdahs, ghazals, mathnawī, and quatrains, some pieces in Persian.Binding note: Dark green leather with silver tooling and stamping. Marbled paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 13 lines per page separated in two columns at hemistich by two vertical ruled lines in red ink. Text is framed in red, gold, and black ruled lines. Outer frame in black. Titles in red in panels defined by a red ruled line.Decoration: Contains ten miniatures representing among others ʻAlī, and princes on fol. 4b, 19b, 37a, 55b, 58b, 84b, 213a, 286b, 311a, 334b.Decoration: The two first pages of the text (fol. 1b-2a) are elaborately illuminated, with floral decor in gold on the margin ; text written in clouds left plain on a gold ground. Illuminated headpiece in gold and colors with a floral motif on fol. 1b. The beginning of each section is decorated in a similar way (fol. 105b-106a; 178b-179a; 194b -- headpiece only; 361b-362a; 416a). Illuminated cartouche with basmalah on fol. 111b.Chiefly quaternions.Origin: Probably India, 19th cent.Incipit: بسم ... هو آجب ... فى البعث ومنقيت حضرت رسالت بناه وخباب امير المومنين عليه الصلواة والسلام
Watermarks: Eagle with FAG in roman; one crescent; three crescents. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains mathematical tables and diagrams.Text rubricated; overlining in black and red; marginal notes, diagrams, and corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 802,2); kurrāsahs 3-10 numbered.Date and copyist's name in colophon: wa-qad wāfaqa al-farāgh min naql hādhihi al-nusakh yawm al-aḥad al-mubārak thānī yawm maḍá min shahr Shaʻbān ʻām khamsah wa-thalāthīn wa-miʾatayn baʻd al-alf [i.e. 15 May 1820] ʻalá yad al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-fānī Muṣṭafá Muḥammad ʻArafah al-Dissūqī al-Burhānī.Text (not this copy) published.Pp. [1-185]. Bound with: Sālim ibn Sālim al-Qayrawānī, Hādiyat al-bādī li-kitāb al-Qalaṣādī, pp. [189-262].Ibn Ghāzī's Munyat al-ḥussāb is based on the Kitāb talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb of Ibn al-Bannāʾ. See David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 139 and 141-142."The author's commentary on his own poem on arithmetic entitled Munyat al-ḥussāb." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Summary of the sciences of algebra and calculus. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2608815Condition: Good condition.
Watermarks: Scrollwork with 3 lions rampant; scrollwork shield with initials DC in roman; scrollwork with lion rampant; scrollwork with lotus (?); initials GBA in roman; scrollwork with GIUSEPPE in roman; VICO in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 3737.Contains logarithmic tables.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of author/copyist; marginal notes in another hand.al-ithnayn al-mubārak salkh Dhī al-Qaʻdah sanat 1239 [27 July 1824] ʻalá yad kātibihi al-mutarjim al-madhkūr.Date, provenance, name of copyist, and source of copy in colophon: wa-hādhā ākhir mā yasurruhu al-mawlá al-karīm min tarjamat hādhā al-majmūʻ al-ʻaẓīm wa-dhālika bi-naqlihi min al-lughah al-iṭāliyānīyah ilá al-lughah al-ʻarabīyah wa-ḥaṣala dhālika wa-tamma bi-al-madrasah allatī anshaʾahā walī al-niʻam tarjamah ʻalá yad al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr Aḥmad al-Ṭabbākh laṭafa bi-hi al-ḥukm al-khayr fa-kāna al-farāgh min tabyīḍihi baʻd naqlihi ilá musawwadah min aṣlihi yawmQuestions about the fundamentals of mathematics with their answers. Translated by the author from an Italian original while he was an instructor at the Dār al-Handasah. The introduction mentions Muḥammad ʻAlī and the scholl's director, ʻUthmān Nūr al-Dīn Afandī. See James Heyworth-Dunne, An Introduction to the History of Education in Modern Egypt (London, 1938), pp. 108-109.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 292Origin: As appears in final colophon at close of sixth daftar on p.614, copied by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Fasāyī [al-Fasāʼī, reading first supplied in note by Muhammad Isa Waley dated May 1980 on catalogue card] with transcription completed Jumādá II 1243 [December 1827]. As appears in colophon on p.99, transcription of first daftar completed 1 Rabīʻ II (presumably of 1243 [ca. 22 October 1827]). As appears in colophon on p.299, transcription of third daftar completed in the latter part of Jumādá I 1243 [December 1827]. As appears on p.499, transcription of fifth daftar completed Jumādá I 1243 [December 1827].Former shelfmark: "174 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of opening leaf (p.1) ; "50 / 12" in brown ink on recto of opening leaf (p.1) ; "١" in pencil on recto of opening leaf (p.1).Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork with spine in red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; likely two-piece binding ; doublures in fine painted lacquerwork with floral composition of three large blooms rising from a rooted stalk with leaves, all in gold on a red ground ; upper and lower covers carry central rectangular panel in brown with bronze flecks surrounded by borders of stalks and rules in bronze-gold as well as a band of delicate vegetal motifs with birds and fruits in shades of green, blue, white, red and orange ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, reinforcements in dark blue thread ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, minor losses of laquer, etc. ; slightly ill-fitting and perhaps not original.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, quite distinct, some curving) and no chain lines plainly visible, transluscent and crisp though dense and sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, gray in color ; some cockling and creasing.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated double-page opening (with illuminated headpiece / ʻunwān / sarlawḥ, gold cloud-bands and illuminated marginal decoration) at opening of each daftar (pp.6-7, 102-103, 188-189, 302-303, 394-395, 502-503), each unique but mainly involving rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surmounted by rich well with w-shaped piece or dome set down in filled with floral vegetal decorations in shades of pink, orange, white, blue, yellow, and red on grounds of gold and dark blue and marginal decoration of saz leaves and floral forms chiefly in gold with red and blue accents ; preface to each daftar set in almond shaped medallion outlined in red rules ; written area surrounded by gold frame with outermost blue rule (divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black) ; keywords and headings rubricated or in blue ink.Script: Naskh ; compact Persianate hand in a medium line ; chiefly serifless with fairly straight and vertical ascenders, pointing in combination of distinct (two dots, one above the other) and conjoined dots (three dots, two conjoined and third above), adhering to baseline, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping dramatically), ascender of kāf often curved back with shaqq / sarkash gently curving up, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page with written area divided to four columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV+2 (10), 37 IV(306), II (310) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; final leaves ruled but left blank (pp.615-619) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تم هذا المثنوی المولوی المعنوی بید عبد الله ابن احمد الفسایی فی یوم الخمیس شهر جمادی الاخری سنه ثلث و اربعون و مائتين بعد الالف من الهجره النبویة علیه واله تم م م م م م"Explicit: "دردل من آن سخن زان مینمنه است زانکه ازدل جانب دل روزنه استIncipit: "هذا کتاب المثنوی وهو اصول اصول اصول الدین فی کشف اسرار الوصول والیقین ..."Title from colophons on pp.99, 299, 499 and 614.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s didactic poetical work in double verses with Arabic preface. Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
A collection of four mathematical treatises on conic sections. The mansucript was completed on 26 December 1834 (see colophon to Item 4, fol. 193v, line 13).The final eight folios (ff. 194v-201v) contain diagrams omitted in their proper places in the texts.Contents:(1) Clavius, Christophorus (كلاويوس الفرنجي), Proposition 8, Book 1 of the Gnomonices (الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس), and four excerpts from Clavius' Euclidis elementorum libri VI (ff. 2v-22r);(2) Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, (ابن الهيثم, (قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى; ff. 22v-32v);(3) Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm (ابن سنان ,إبراهيم), Treatise on the Construction of the Three Sections (مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة; ff. 32v-37v);(4) Apollonius of Perga (أبلونيوس), Conics (كتاب المخروطات; ff 38r-193v).Codex; ff. v+201+vMaterial: PaperDimensions: 278 x 200 mm leaf [215 x 115 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic-Indic pagination in black inkRuling:
Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 6 lines per 10 cmScript:
Nasta‘līqInk: BlackBinding: British Museum binding of red leather with blind tooled decoration on coversCondition: ExcellentMarginalia: Occasional marginal corrections in Arabic; marginal and interlinear notes in English
Title from f. 1v.Black cloth; tan leather spine and corners.Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black and red.According to the colophon (f. 199r), copy completed in the hand of Khwājah Munawwar ʻAlī in Hyderabad on 25 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1256 AH [March 11, 1840 AD].MS Arab SM4286. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Geometry and surface measurement . It also includes land topography with exercices .|If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2601679Condition: Some letters are not clear due to damage of the ink.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 833Origin: As appears at close on p.281, dated 28 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1279 [ca. 17 May 1863].Binding: Boards covered in textured, coated black paper with red leather over spine and corners of boards (barely, not quite half-binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in printed 'marbled' paper (mainly in dark blue, pink and yellow) ; spine gold-stamped with vegetal designs and lines along ridges ; sewn in yellow thread, five stations, over cords ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, etc.Support: Machine laid paper (faux laid wove) with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "L J D," thin, transluscent, and quite well-burnished, tinted blue.Decoration: Headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rural scene with canon on rolling hills set in a crescent flanked by assorted arms / weapons ; keywords, section headings, numerals and other symbols rubricated ; numerous line-drawings and diagrams (in pencil and black and red inks) illustrating text.Script: Ruqʻah ; clear Turkish hand ; serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in as many as 23 lines per page, though varies considerably depending on number of diagrams, mathematical problems, etc. ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 14 V(140), I (142), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "مقدمه علم حكمت طبيعيه علوم طبيعيه نك ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening (p.2).Ms. codex.Careful copy of an Ottoman physics (physical science or natural sciences, i.e. hikmet-i tabiiye) textbook of uncertain authorship.