Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 923]
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<li><strong>Mathematics and Astronomy.</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 923 </strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li>
<li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 744 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li>
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<p>744.</p>
<p>923. Size 8<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 4<sup>3/4</sup> in.; foll. 101. Twelve lines in a page.</p>
<p>Another collection, apparently of the same origin, and completing the preceding one. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. and Cat. Bodl., as before mentioned.</p>
<p>It contains: ----</p>
<p>I.Foll. 1-10. تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة لاوطولوقس اصلحه ثابت و هو مقالة واحدة و اثنا عشر شكلا .</p>
<p>AUTOLYCUS <em>περι κινουμενης σφαιρας</em>, in the version of <em>Thâbit </em>b. Ḳurrah. See Ḥ. Kh. v. 140; Wenrich, 208; Cat. Lugd. iii. 49; Cat. Mus. Brit. 623<em>a</em>.</p>
<p>Revised on 17th Jum. I.</p>
<p>II.Foll. 11-21. تحرير كتاب المساكن لثاوذوسيوس و هو اثنا عشر شكلا نقل قسطا بن لوقا البعلبكى .</p>
<p>THEODOSIUS <em><strong>περι</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>οί</strong></em><em><strong>κησεων</strong></em>, translated by <em>Ḳusṭa</em> b. Lûḳa. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 150. ; Cat. Lugd. iii. 79; Cat. Mus. Brit., l.c.; Wenrich, 207.</p>
<p>Revised on 18th Jum. I.</p>
<p>III. Foll. 23-51.كتاب ثاوذوسيوس فى الايّام و الليالى و فى بعض النسخ فى الليل و النهار و الكتاب مقالتان و ثلثة و ثلثون شكلا .</p>
<p>THEODOSIUS <em><strong>περι</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>ή</strong></em><em><strong>μερων</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>κ</strong></em><em><strong>αι</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>ν</strong></em><em><strong>υκτων</strong></em><em>. </em>See Ḥ. Kh. under both of the above titles, v. 56 and 143; Wenrich, 207; and Cat. Mus. Brit., l.c., where <em>Isḥâ</em><em>ḳ</em> b. Ḥunain is named as translator.</p>
<p>Revised on 13th Sha’bân.</p>
<p>IV.Foll. 52-69. كتاب ارسطرخس فى جرمى النيرين و بعديهما سبعة عشر شكلا .</p>
<p>ARISTARCHUS <em><strong>περι</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>μεγεθων</strong></em><em><strong> και άποστηματων</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>ή</strong></em><strong>λ</strong><em><strong>ιου</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>και</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>σε</strong></em><strong>λ</strong><em><strong>ηνης</strong></em>. See. Ḥ. Kh. v. 70, whose statement, however, is confused. The Arabic translation was made, according to Cat. Bodl. i. 189, <em>Ḳusṭa</em> b. Lûḳa. Cf. Wenrich, 209; Fihrist, ٢٧٠, 20; and Palmer, Catal. Trin. Coll. 180.</p>
<p>Revised on 13th Jum. I.</p>
<p>V. Foll. 71-95. مقالهْ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل و هفت شکل است.</p>
<p>The first book of the Elements of EUCLID, in <em>Persian</em>.</p>
<p>VI. Foll. 98-101. كتاب اقليدس فى الثقل و الخفة و قياس الاجرام بعضها الى بعض اصلاح ثابت بن قرة الحرّانى.</p>
<p>EUCLID’S treatise on Heavy and Light (de gravi et levi), in the version of <em>Thâbit</em> b. Ḳurrah. Cf. Wenrich, 184; Fihrist, ed Flügel, ٢٦٦, 16.</p>
<p>Begins: الاجرام المتساوية فى العظم هى التى تملأ امكنة متساوية الخ.</p>
<p>Written and ornamented like the preceding no.</p>
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