Author
the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria
Publication Date
5 Friday II 1214 (AH)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 1v-152v
Record ID
vdc_100066866505.0x000003
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
5 Friday II 1214 (AH)
Notes
Arabic Version of The Fundamental Introduction to Geometry, The
Elements
(Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης, Euclid; fl. 300 BC), in the annotated edition (edition) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tusi; 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 (essays), 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 2nd century BC;
The text contains numerous diagrams.
This copy was completed on 5 Jumāda II 1214/4 November 1799 by Rukn al-Dīn (Rukn al-Dīn; see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 152r, lines 12-14, transcribed below).
Contents:
Book One (first article, ff. 1v-29r);
Book Two (Second Article, ff. 29r-36v);
Book Three (Translation III, ff. 36v-48v);
Book Four (Al-Maqala al-Raba'a, ff. 48v-55r);
Book Five (The Fifth Treatise, ff. 55r-62v);
Book Six (Al-Maqala al-Sadsa, ff. 62v-76v);
Book Seven (Seventh Treatise, ff. 76v-83v);
Book Eight (Second Article, ff. 83v-89r);
Book Nine (al-Tasa'a, ff. 89r-95r);
Book Ten (Translation 10, ff. 95r-116r);
Book Eleven (Al-Hadiyah Tenth, ff. 116r-128r);
Book Twelve (Second Article Twenty, ff. 128r-137r);
Book Thirteen (Translation Thirteen, ff. 137r-147r);
Book Fourteen (article fourteen [unfilled space left blank for title], ff. 147r-151r);
Book Fifteen (Al-Maqala al-Fifteen, ff. 151r-152v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
Praise be to Allah, to Whom belongs the beginning and to Whom belongs the end
His prayer on Muhammad and his family of Asfia and after the film was released from the editor of the editor's opinion to free the book
Principles of geometry and calculation attributed to Euclid al-Suri
Ends (f. 152v, lines 8-11):
... And if Allah enables us to publish this book, praise be to Allah, it is a good success
ومعين
When the author finds a vacancy, he is willing to forgive and make the paradises of the paradise from release
This book is classified in the second and twentieth of Sha'ban al-Mu'azam, the sixth and fortieth of the year
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 152r, lines 12-15):
There was a vacancy to weaken the worshipers of the pillar of religion from some liberation
The fifth part of Jamadi al-Thani is 100 years old
And forty-ten in the name of Allah
and Hassan Tawfiqah
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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 Ūqlīd
is ta’līf
Khūjah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsi
̄, (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
