Author
Apollonius of Perga
Publication Date
Ramaḍān 1198 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Place
India -
Type
Book
Language
ara,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
216 x 136 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 924
Record ID
vdc_100022532234.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Ramaḍān 1198 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
Arabic version of the
Conics
(Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic. The edition is called
Taḥrīr makhrūṭāt
(تحرير مخروطات), indicating that this is the edition (تحرير) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274; see f. 181, line 5 and Sezgin,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 5, p. 141), based on the translation made for the Banū Mūsá (fl. 9th century; see f. 42r, line 9).
This copy was completed in Ramaḍān 1198/July-August 1784 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
on f. 204v, transcribed below), probably for Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal from 1772-1785. The script, ornamentation and binding of the volume indicate that it is part of a set comprising manuscripts IO Islamic 923 and IO Islamic 1249.
Contents:
المقالة الأولى (Book 1; ff. 1v-42r);
المقالة الثانية (Book 2; ff. 42r-67v);
المقالة الثالثة (Book 3; ff. 67v-104v);
المقالة الرابعة (Book 4; ff. 104v-121v);
المقالة الخامسة (Book 5; ff. 121v-159v);
المقالة السادسة (Book 6; ff. 159v-181v);
المقالة السابعة (Book 7; ff. 181v-204v).
The diagrams referred to in the text are found on fold outs placed near the end of each book (ff. 41r, 66r, 103r, 120r, 158r, 180r and 196r).
There is an unfoliated blank leaf between ff. 195 and 196, and the text resumes with a basmallah on f. 197r after the diagrams on f. 196r, both of which features give the appearance that a new book begins on f. 197r. Since, however, there is no
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
at the end of the text on f. 195v and the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
on fol. 204v (transcribed below) indicates the end of the Conics, the text on ff. 197r-204v is either a continuation of Book 7, basmallah notwithstanding, or a postscript.
The
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
on f. 204v is followed by further geometrical proposition by the hand of the copyist. Its relation to the rest of the text is unclear.
Between front papers i and ii are a fragment of the spine and loose leaf of paper bearing a brief note in Persian.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-2):
المقالة الأولى من كتاب أبلونيوس في المخروطات ستون شكلًا
الخط الواصل من رأس المخروط وأيته نقط على بسيطه يقع على بسيط
Ends (f. 204v, lines 1-2):
مربعهما أعظم من فصل ما بين مربعي رح ومنتصبه ومبين أيضًا أن فصل ما بين مربعي
ي ط ومنتصبه أعظم من فصل ما بين مربعي ث خ ومنتصبه ...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 204v, lines 2-3):
... تم المخروطات يست (؟) ويكم (؟)
رمضان المبارك سنة 1198 هجري مقدس
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Loth, Otto,
A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
(London : Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 745, p. 218
Edinme Kaynağı
East India Company Library
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition of Original Greek text and Arabic version:
Apollonius de Perge,
Coniques: Texte grec et arabe etabli, traduit et commenté
, 6 vols, Roshdi Rashed, Micheline Decorps-Foulquier, and Michel Federspiel, eds (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008-2009)
Study:
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1971). pp. 136-143
