Author
Theodosius of Bithynia
Publication Date
13 Sha‘bān 1198 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 923, ff 23v-51r
Record ID
vdc_100023602345.0x000003
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
13 Sha‘bān 1198 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
Arabic version of the
De diebus et noctibus
(Περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ νυκτῶν; Book on Days and Nights) a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (Theodosius; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 51r) following the text. At the end of the text is a collation note in Persian dated 13 Sha‘bān without mention of the year (f. 50r), probably 1198 (2 July 1784).
Contents:
Beginnings (f. 23v, lines 2-4):
The book of Theodosius on days and nights and in some copies in
The Night, the Day, and the Book are two articles and thirty-three forms
Book The Sun moves moderately against the movement of all over the zodiac
Ends (f. 49v, line 12-f. 50r, line 2):
And the two bows gathered from it are folded by H and E, and a bow remains for Ram to count those
The arc of the period is the sum of those arcs, so it is the arc h e estimated for the period
It was not possible for this to happen, so the ruling is fixed, and that is what we wanted
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Edition:
Theodosius,
Kitāb al-Ayyām wa-al-layāli
, in
Majmūʿ 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:
Theodosii De habitationibus liber: De diebus et noctibus libri duo
, Rudolf Fecht, trans, (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1927)
