Mathematics and Astronomy [744]

Mathematics and Astronomy. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 923 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 744 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 744. 923. Size 81/4 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 101. Twelve lines in a page. Another collection, apparently of the same origin, and completing the preceding one. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. and Cat. Bodl., as before mentioned. It contains: ---- I.Foll. 1-10. تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة لاوطولوقس اصلحه ثابت و هو مقالة واحدة و اثنا عشر شكلا . AUTOLYCUS περι κινουμενης σφαιρας, in the version of Thâbit b. Ḳurrah. See Ḥ. Kh. v. 140; Wenrich, 208; Cat. Lugd. iii. 49; Cat. Mus. Brit. 623a. Revised on 17th Jum. I. II.Foll. 11-21. تحرير كتاب المساكن لثاوذوسيوس و هو اثنا عشر شكلا نقل قسطا بن لوقا البعلبكى . THEODOSIUS περι οίκησεων, translated by Ḳusṭa b. Lûḳa. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 150. ; Cat. Lugd. iii. 79; Cat. Mus. Brit., l.c.; Wenrich, 207. Revised on 18th Jum. I. III. Foll. 23-51.كتاب ثاوذوسيوس فى الايّام و الليالى و فى بعض النسخ فى الليل و النهار و الكتاب مقالتان و ثلثة و ثلثون شكلا . THEODOSIUS περι ήμερων και νυκτων. See Ḥ. Kh. under both of the above titles, v. 56 and 143; Wenrich, 207; and Cat. Mus. Brit., l.c., where Isḥâḳ b. Ḥunain is named as translator. Revised on 13th Sha’bân. IV.Foll. 52-69. كتاب ارسطرخس فى جرمى النيرين و بعديهما سبعة عشر شكلا . ARISTARCHUS περι μεγεθων και άποστηματων ήλιου και σεληνης. See. Ḥ. Kh. v. 70, whose statement, however, is confused. The Arabic translation was made, according to Cat. Bodl. i. 189, Ḳusṭa b. Lûḳa. Cf. Wenrich, 209; Fihrist, ٢٧٠, 20; and Palmer, Catal. Trin. Coll. 180. Revised on 13th Jum. I. V. Foll. 71-95. مقالهْ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل و هفت شکل است. The first book of the Elements of EUCLID, in Persian. VI. Foll. 98-101. كتاب اقليدس فى الثقل و الخفة و قياس الاجرام بعضها الى بعض اصلاح ثابت بن قرة الحرّانى. EUCLID’S treatise on Heavy and Light (de gravi et levi), in the version of Thâbit b. Ḳurrah. Cf. Wenrich, 184; Fihrist, ed Flügel, ٢٦٦, 16. Begins: الاجرام المتساوية فى العظم هى التى تملأ امكنة متساوية الخ. Written and ornamented like the preceding no.