تحرير كتاب المعطيات لأقليدس Taḥrīr kitāb al-mu‘tīyāt li-Uqlīdis Euclid أقليدس

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Arabic version of the Data (Δεδομένα; كتاب المعطيات) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The text was translated by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (إسحق بن حنين; d. ca 910), revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901) and is presented here in the edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).

The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 35r) following the text.

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):

تحرير كتاب المعطيات لأقليدس ترجمه إسحق وأصلحه ثابت خمسة

وتسعون شكلًا صرد الكتاب الخطوط والسطوح والزوايا المعلومة القدر

هي التي يمكن أن يجد مساوية لها والمعلومة النسبة ...

Ends (f. 34r, lines 3-7):

... وشكل ا ه ب شبيهة

بشكل ح رء فنسبة ا ه ب إلى ح ر ء معلومة

ونسبة شكل ح ر ء إلى سطح ح ء ر م معلومة

وزاوية م ح ء معلومة فشكل ح ه ا ذ ن

معلوم الصورة وهو المراد

Extent and format

ff. 1v-35r

It is part of

Arabic versions of seven Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد

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Ref: IO Islamic 1249

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English in Latin script

Type

Manuscript item

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Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IO Islamic 1249, ff 1v-35r

History of this record

Date(s)

Jumādá I 1198 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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Finding aids

Loth, Otto, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. (London : Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 743, p. 216-17

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Edition:

• Euclid, Kitāb al-Muʿṭayāt , 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. VI, Euclidis Data, cum commentario Marini et scholiis antiquis , Heinrich Menge, ed., (Liepzig: Teubner, 1896)

Subjects

Geometry--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Isḥāq ibn ḤunaynEuclidThābit ibn Qurrah al-ḤarrānīNaṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ṬūsīWarren Hastings

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