Four treatises on conic sections
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Four treatises on conic sections
- Date:
- 1834/1834
- Description:
- 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
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type:
- Manuscript
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Geometry--Early works to 1800
Conic sections - Extent:
- Codex; ff. v+201+v
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0000fe_ar
81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0000fe_en
Add MS 14332 - Is part of:
- British Library: Oriental Manuscripts