Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 1228]

Mathematics and Astronomy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1228 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 736 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

736.

1228. Size 61/2 in. by 4 in.; foll. 156. Seventeen lines in a page.

The Elements of EUCLID in Arabic, as edited by NAṢÎR AL-DÎN ṬÛSÎ (d. A.H. 672).

This work is commonly called تحرير اقليدس . See Aumer, Hdss. Münch . 374, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 618. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 213; Wenrich, de auctor. Graecor. Versionibus, p. 185; etc. This version is different from that printed at Rome, 1594. According to Aumer, l.c., it was printed at Constantinople, 1801 (A.H. 1216).

Part of it, comprising six books (مقالة) , was also published by the Calcutta School Books Society, 1824.

Written in a small cursive hand. Dated A.H. 933. At the end is added the date of the editor, 22nd Sha’bân, 646. On the first two foll. are various notes. Worm-eaten.

[Hastings.]