Author
the astronomer
Publication Date
Friday II 1014 (AH)
Publication Place
Yazd -
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23570, ff 62r-69v
Record ID
vdc_100023431932.0x000009
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Friday II 1014 (AH)
Notes
Arabic version of the
The sphaera quae movertur
(The book of the moving coin; the book of the moving coin) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane Πιταναῖος; fl 300 BC), translation from the Greek revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (d. 901). Although it is not stated here, the text is presented in the edition (Tahrir) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ṭūsī (Nasīr al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tusi; d. 1274).
The text was copied at Yazd on Friday II 1014/October 1605 by (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 69v, transcribed below
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
of the previous item on f. 62r, lines 8-10). On the title page (f. 7r) and on f. 62r, where the title of this text appears on the lower half of the page; Both the title page and the title appearing on f. 62r were written by a hand later than that of the main scribe.
The text contains fifteen diagrams. Notes on smaller slips of paper have been bound into the volume as folios 65-67.
Begins (f. 62v, lines 2-3):
This book is a moving book for fixed reform and is a single article in ten forms
The head of the point that moves moderate movement is the one that affects equal time equal positions
Ends (f. 69v, written vertically along outer margin):
It is a column on the surface of the circle and the surface is not above the center of the wheel without the permission of every unit of the circle
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 69v, written vertically in upper margin):
تمت كتابه [!] الكرة المتحركة
لأوتلوقس بعون الله تعالى
At the hands of Abu al-Qasim Yahya
in time and place
المذکورين worthy of that
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds
And peace be upon the Prophet Muhammad and his family
أجمعين وسلم تسليمًا
كثيرًا
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Autolycus, 'Kitāb al-Kurah al-mutaḥarrikah', in
Majmū
ʿ al-rasāʼil ḥarrarahā Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭ
ūsī
(Ḥaydarābād al-Dakkan: Dāʼirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmānīyah, 1358-1359 [1939-1940])
Edition of original Greek text:
Autolyci de sphaera quae movetur liber. De ortibus et occasibus libri duo una cum scholiis antiquis e libris manu scriptis edidit
, Friedrich Otto Hultsch, ed., (Liepzig: Teubner, 1885)
Edition and translation of original Greek text:
The books of Autolykos. On a moving sphere, and On risings and settings
, Frans Bruin and Alexander Vondjidis, eds. and trans., (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1971)