MS. Marsh 667 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection
Contents
1 copy of Kitāb Abullūniyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt by Apollonius, of Perga
i.e. the Conica in the version of Hilāl ibn Abī Hilāl al-Ḥimṣī (bk. 1-4) and Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901 (bk. 5-7), revised by the Banū Mūsá, and with the marginal glosses of Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
A. F. L. Beeston, Bodleian Library Record 4 (1952), pp. 76-77 (where however the abjad date tāʼ sīn bāʼ is converted 472 not 462)
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Physical Description
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Mathematici in folio, no. 3].
The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.
The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.
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Funding of Cataloguing
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