Mathematics and Astronomy [745]

Mathematics and Astronomy. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 924 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 745 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 745. 924. Size 81/2 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 204. Eleven lines in a page. APOLLONIUS’ Books of Conic Sections, كتاب المخروطات , probably the edition of NAṢÎR AL-DÎN ṬÛSÎ. See Cat. Bodl. i. 205; Cat. Mus. Lugd. iii. 44; Wenrich, 200. Other versions, Cat. Mus. Brit. 208 and 444. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 147, and Fihrist, ed. Flügel, ٢٦٦ sq. Begins: المقالة الاولى من كتاب ابلونيوس فى المخروطات ستون شكلا الخط الواصل بين راس المخروط الخ. This first Maḳâlah concludes (fol. 42) as follows: تمت المقالة الاولى من كتاب ابلونيوس نقلا عن نسخة محرره , after which the second begins thus : المقالة الثانية ثلثة و ستون شكلا فى نسخة بنى موسى . An elegant copy, executed like the two preceding nos. Dated 21st Ramaḍân, 1198. Rubries omitted in the concluding portion. [Hastings.]