Author
the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria
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 57v-86r
Record ID
vdc_100023285040.0x000003
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Friday I 1198 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Arabic version of the
Phaenomena
(Φαινόμενα; Phenomenology of Astronomy) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; Euclid; fl. 300 BC) presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 86r) following the text.
Beginnings (f. 57v, lines 2-4):
The book, The Phenomenology of Astronomy, by Euclid, has twenty-three forms, and in some copies
Twenty-five forms that the editor of this book says did not occur to anyone from the book
It is not a very sick copy, most of it is falsified and distorted
Ends (85r, lines 3-6):
...Equal parts of the soul that...
In the animal hemisphere, the time required to replace each acetabular hemisphere is greater
From the time when any arc was changed, it was other than that hemisphere of the apparent hemisphere
The proof and form are K
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(85r, line 6):
The book was completed with the help of King Wahhab
Below the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
is a collation note in Persian dated 10 Jumādá I, without mention of the year.
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Edition:
Euclid,
Kitāb Ẓāhirāt al-falak
, 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])
Zạ̄hirāt al-falak li-Uqlīdis, t 270 Q.M. Bi-tahṛīr Nasị̄r al-Dīn al-Tụ̄sī (maʻa dirāsah li-manhaj al-tahṛīr al-naqdī ʻinda al-Tụ̄sī)
, ʻAbbās Muhạmmad Hạsan Sulaymān, ed., (Beirut: Dār al-Nahdạh al-ʻArabīyah, 1996)
Edition of original Greek text:
Euclidis Opera omnia. Vol. VIII, Euclidis phaenomena et scripta musica
, H. Menge and I.L. Heiberg, eds (Liepzig: Teubner, 1916)
