Author
the astronomer
Publication Date
Friday I 1198 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 1249, ff 87v-110r
Record ID
vdc_100023285040.0x000004
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Friday I 1198 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Arabic version of the
De ortibus and occassibus
(Περὶ ἐπιτολῶν καὶ δύσεων; At rising and setting [f. 87v, line 2, transcribed below] or At risings and setting [f. f. 109r, line 10, transcribed below]) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; Autolycus; fl. 300 BC), revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (Thābit ibn Qurrah; d. 901) and presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 110r) following the text.
Beginnings (f. 87v, lines 2-5):
The book of Otologus on rising and setting from Islah Thabet and Nu, two articles
And thirty-six shapes. The first article has a similar shape. The second article has a similar shape
Sadr refers to some of the risings and setting of the planets, especially the constants
It is hidden and for some it is apparent...
Ends (f. 109r, lines 6-8):
...And each one of Sagittarius E M T K H L has five signs
The arch of LH M, which is the arch of concealment, is greater than two towers
As much as the arc of K i and that's what we wanted...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 109r, lines 8-10):
...done
The second article was completed in its entirety, the book of Autologus
In sunrises and sunsets
Below the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
is a Persian collation note dated 10 Jumādá I, without mention of the year.
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Edition:
Autolycus,
Kitāb al-Ṭulūʿ wa-al-ghurūb
, in
Majm
ūʿ al-rasāʼil ḥarrarahā Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī
(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)