Author
the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria
Publication Date
1198 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r
Record ID
vdc_100023602345.0x000005
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1198 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
A Persian version of Book One of the
Elements
(Στοιχεῖα; Euclid's book [in the basics]) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; Euclid; fl. 300 BC). The diagrams are collected on three fold outs (ff. 74r, 89r and 95r).
Begins (f. 71v, lines 1-2:
The first article of Euclid's book has forty-seven figures and is in the fixed version
Forty-eight is the increase of one shape and that shape is 2. The habit has gone like this
Ends (f. 94v, lines 6-7)
... He became the eighth after Nir Qaymeh
That was what we meant
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Edition of original Greek text:
Euclid in Greek. Book I
, Thomas L. Heath, ed. and trans., (Cambridge: University Press, 1920)
