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 36v-56r
Record ID
vdc_100023285040.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Friday I 1198 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Arabic version of the
Optica
(The Views) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; Euclid; fl. 300 BC) presented here in the edition (edited) of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 56r) following the text.
Beginnings (ff. 36v, lines 2-4):
Editing Euclid's views, which are sixty-four figures, published the book
The eye occurs by deriving from the luminous bodies in the transparent intermediate body
Between them and the visible objects, such as the air and anything like it, is a ray as produced by luminous bodies
Ends (f. 55r, lines 5-9):
...and also
Which are affected by the tar near the ribs
Equality in consistency, as well as tar
That's what we wanted...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 55r, lines 8-9):
...the scenes were written
Euclid's dam has a form
Below the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
is a collation note in Persian dated 9 Jumādá I, without mention of the year.
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Edition and translation of Arabic text:
The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics (Kitāb Uqlīdis fī ikhtilāf al-manāẓir)
, 2 vols, Elaheh Kheirandish, ed. and trans. (New York: Springer, 1999)
Euclid,
Kitāb al-Manāẓir
, 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:
Euclidis Opera omnia
.
Vol. VII, Euclidis Optica, opticorum recensio Theonis, catoptrica, cum scholiis antiquis
, I.L. Heiberg, ed. (Liepzig: Teubner, 1895)