كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوع والغروب Kitāb Awtūlūqūs fī al-ṭulūʿ wa-al-ghurūb Autolycus أوطولوقس

IO Islamic 1249, ff 87v-110r

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The record is made up of ff. 87v-110r. It was created in Jumādá I 1198. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Arabic version of the De ortibus et occasibus (Περὶ ἐπιτολῶν καὶ δύσεων; في الطلوع والغروب [f. 87v, line 2, transcribed below] or في الطلوعات والغروبات [f. f. 109r, line 10, transcribed below]) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطولوقس; fl. 300 BC), revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901) and presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).

The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 110r) following the text.

Begins (f. 87v, lines 2-5):

كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوع والغروب من إصلاح ثابت ونو مقالتان

وستة وثلثون شكلًا المقالة الأولى يه شكلًا المقالة الثانية كا شكلًا

صدر يقال لبعض طلوعات الكواكب والغروباتها وخصوصًا الثوابت

إنها خفية ولبعضها إنها ظاهرة ...

Ends (f. 109r, lines 6-8):

... ويكون كل واحد من قوسي ء م ط ك ح ل خمسة بروج

وقوس ل ح م و هي قوس الخفاء أعظم من برجين

بقدر قوس ك ط و ذلك ما أردناه ...

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 109r, lines 8-10):

... تمت

المقالة الثانية وتم بتمامها كتاب أوطولوقس

في الطلوعات والغروبات

Below the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. is a Persian collation note dated 10 Jumādá I, without mention of the year.

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ff. 87v-110r
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Arabic in Arabic script
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IO Islamic 1249, ff 87v-110r

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Jumādá I 1198 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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Edition:

  • Autolycus, Kitāb al-Ṭulūʿ wa-al-ghurūb , in Majm ūʿ 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:

  • Autolyci de sphaera quae movetur liber. De ortibus et occasibus libri duo una cum scholiis antiquis e libris manu scriptis edidit , Friedrich Otto Hultsch, ed., (Liepzig: Teubner, 1885)

Edition and translation of original Greek text:

  • The Books of Autolykos. On a Moving Sphere, and On Risings and Settings , Frans Bruin and Alexander Vondjidis, eds. and trans., (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1971)

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