Four treatises on conic sections

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A collection of four mathematical treatises on conic sections. The mansucript was completed on 26 December 1834 (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. to Item 4, fol. 193v, line 13).The final eight folios (ff. 194v-201v) contain diagrams omitted in their proper places in the texts.

Contents:

• (1) Clavius, Christophorus (كلاويوس الفرنجي), Proposition 8, Book 1 of the Gnomonices (الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس), and four excerpts from Clavius' Euclidis elementorum libri VI (ff. 2v-22r);
• (2) Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, (ابن الهيثم, (قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى; ff. 22v-32v);
• (3) Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm (ابن سنان ,إبراهيم), Treatise on the Construction of the Three Sections (مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة; ff. 32v-37v);
• (4) Apollonius of Perga (أبلونيوس), Conics (كتاب المخروطات; ff 38r-193v).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. v+201+v

It is grouped into

al-Shakl al-thāmin min al-maqālah al-ūlá min kitāb al-maqāyīs الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس And four excerpts from Euclidis elementorum libri VI Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي

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Ref: Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r

Qaul lil-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Haytham fī shakl Banī Mūsá قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan) ابن الهيثم ,الحسن بن الحسن

21 images

Ref: Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v

Maqālah fī rasm al-qutū‘ al-thalāthah مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm ابن سنان ,إبراهيم

11 images

Ref: Add MS 14332, ff 32v-37v

Kitāb al-makhrūṭāt كتاب المخروطات Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس

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Ref: Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v

Physical characteristics

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 278 x 200 mm leaf [215 x 115 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic-Indic pagination in black ink

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 6 lines per 10 cm

Script: Nasta‘līq

Ink: Black

Binding: British Museum binding of red leather with blind tooled decoration on covers

Condition: Excellent

Marginalia: Occasional marginal corrections in Arabic; marginal and interlinear notes in English

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 14332

History of this record

Date(s)

26 Dec 1834 (CE, Gregorian)

Context of creation

India

Immediate source of acquisition

Presented by Mrs Anne Gillies Tytler, widow of John Tytler Esq. late Superintendent of the Native Medical Institution at Calcutta, 7 June 1843 (see fol. 1r)

Related material

Finding aids

Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), Item 975, pp. 443-44

Subjects

Geometry--Early works to 1800Conic sections

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