Min kitāb Abūlūnīyūs fī al-ashkāl al-sanaubarīyah From the book Apollonius of Coniferous Forms Apollonius of Perga Apollonius
( من كتاب أبولونيوس في الأشكال الصنوبرية أبولونيوس)

Name: Min kitāb Abūlūnīyūs fī al-ashkāl al-sanaubarīyah From the book Apollonius of Coniferous Forms Apollonius of Perga Apollonius
Author: Apollonius of Perga

Title	Min kitāb Abūlūnīyūs fī al-ashkāl al-sanaubarīyah From the book Apollonius of Coniferous Forms Apollonius of Perga Apollonius
Title Original	من كتاب أبولونيوس في الأشكال الصنوبرية أبولونيوس
Author	Apollonius of Perga
Publication Date:	Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639 (AH, Hijri)
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	1
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	Add MS 7473, ff 164v-172v
Record ID	vdc_100023677047.0x000010
Library Location	British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date	Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639 (AH, Hijri)
Notes	The title states that this text is an excerpt from an Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; in coniferous forms) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; Apollonius; fl ca 200 BC). The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , however, gives the title of the work as the Book of Burning Mirrors and Compendium of Conics (The Book of Burning Mirrors and Collections of Cones), and states that it was copied in Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639/May 1242 from an exemplar copied in ‘the west side of the city of Mahdīyah (in the Maghrib district of the city of Mahdia)’ on 11 Rabī‘ I 531/7 December 1136 (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. f. 172v, lines 11-16, transcribed below). The text contains fifteen diagrams. Appended to the text is a note on division and multiplication using Arabic (hindī) numerals that the scribe claims to have found in his exemplar. Begins (f. ff 164v, lines 3-6): If a straight line connects a point to a line surrounding a circle and it is not the point on the surface that... It has the circle, not the point, with the end of the line in place, and I rotate the straight line on the line What surrounds the circle until it returns to the position from which it began to move, then name the shape it contains This line has a pine shape... Ends (f. 172v, lines 6-8): ...They use that piece The edge of which is the diameter of the side of a gun, and the best thing to burn with is burnt glass It was not a perfect ball, like a large ball of water, and it should be filled with water Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 172v, lines 9-18): Burning mirrors and mosques were written Cones, praise be to God and from Him I copied it from a copy that was written in the Morocco region In the city of Mahdia and the date of its capture The first ten days of the month of Rabi` al-Awwal In the year five hundred and thirty-one Hijri and I quoted it in the middle ten From Dhul-Qi'dah in the year 639 Praise be to God, the Grantor of reason
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Min kitāb Abūlūnīyūs fī al-ashkāl al-sanaubarīyah From the book Apollonius of Coniferous Forms Apollonius of Perga Apollonius

( من كتاب أبولونيوس في الأشكال الصنوبرية أبولونيوس)

Author Apollonius of Perga

Publication Date Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639 (AH, Hijri)

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 1

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID Add MS 7473, ff 164v-172v

Record ID vdc_100023677047.0x000010

Library Location British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Date Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639 (AH, Hijri)

Notes The title states that this text is an excerpt from an Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; in coniferous forms) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; Apollonius; fl ca 200 BC). The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , however, gives the title of the work as the Book of Burning Mirrors and Compendium of Conics (The Book of Burning Mirrors and Collections of Cones), and states that it was copied in Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639/May 1242 from an exemplar copied in ‘the west side of the city of Mahdīyah (in the Maghrib district of the city of Mahdia)’ on 11 Rabī‘ I 531/7 December 1136 (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. f. 172v, lines 11-16, transcribed below). The text contains fifteen diagrams. Appended to the text is a note on division and multiplication using Arabic (hindī) numerals that the scribe claims to have found in his exemplar. Begins (f. ff 164v, lines 3-6): If a straight line connects a point to a line surrounding a circle and it is not the point on the surface that... It has the circle, not the point, with the end of the line in place, and I rotate the straight line on the line What surrounds the circle until it returns to the position from which it began to move, then name the shape it contains This line has a pine shape... Ends (f. 172v, lines 6-8): ...They use that piece The edge of which is the diameter of the side of a gun, and the best thing to burn with is burnt glass It was not a perfect ball, like a large ball of water, and it should be filled with water Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 172v, lines 9-18): Burning mirrors and mosques were written Cones, praise be to God and from Him I copied it from a copy that was written in the Morocco region In the city of Mahdia and the date of its capture The first ten days of the month of Rabi` al-Awwal In the year five hundred and thirty-one Hijri and I quoted it in the middle ten From Dhul-Qi'dah in the year 639 Praise be to God, the Grantor of reason

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