MS. Marsh 709 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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9 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Geometry, Astronomy, and Mathematics

1. ff. 1v-5r
Author: Autolykos
Translator: Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901 ثابت بن قرة، 211-288 هـ
Reviser: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 نصير الدين الطوسي، محمد بن محمد،597-672 هـ
Title: al-Kurah al-mutaḥarrikah
Title: الكرة المتحرّكة

Copy does not mention translator or reviser

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 217
UAM. 960 (1 [i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 603
2. ff. 5r-6r
Author: Archimedes أرشميدس 287-212 ق.م
Title: Fī qismat shakl sammāhu bi-Sṭumāshiyūn
Title: في قسمة شكل سمّاه بسطماشيون

Arabic fragment of the last part of the Stomachion

See Archimedis opera omnia cum commentariis Eutocii, it. edidit J. L. Heiberg, Lipsiae 1910-15, Vol. 2 p. 420 note to 1. 14: “Hoc fragmentum [i. e. of the Stomachion] sine dubio ultima opusculi propositio, Arabice seruatum est in codd. Berolin. Mf. 258 et Mq. 559, Bodleian. 960 [= MS. Marsh 709] codiceque quodam Instituti rerum Indi ae Londinensis.”

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
3. ff. 10v-35r
Author: Theodosius, 1st cent. B.C.
Title: Kitāb al-Ukar
Title: كتاب الأكر
Title: De Sphaerica

Neither translator nor reviser mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 204
UAM. 960 (2)
4. ff. 35v-38r
Author: Archimedes أرشميدس 287-212 ق.م
Translator: Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901 ثابت بن قرة، 211-288 هـ
Editor: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 نصير الدين الطوسي، محمد بن محمد،597-672 هـ
Title: Taḥrīr al-Maqālah fī taksīr al-dāʼirah
Title: تحرير المقالة في تكسير الدائرة

No translator or editor mentioned

Hyderabad edn., vol. II no. 5 (appendix pp. 127-133)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 511
UAM. 960 (3)
5. ff. 38v-46r
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 نصير الدين الطوسي، محمد بن محمد،597-672 هـ
Title: Kitāb fī jurmay al-nayyirayn wa-buʼdayhimā
Title: كتاب في جُرمي النيّرين وبُعدَيهما
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 512
UAM. 960 (4)
6. ff. 46v-64r
Author: Euclid إقليدس
Title: Kitāb al-Muʻṭayāt
Title: كتاب المعطيات
Title: Data

In the revision by Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901 , ? of the translation by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, 830 or 31-910 or 11

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 217
UAM. 960 (5)
7. ff. 64v-70r
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 نصير الدين الطوسي، محمد بن محمد،597-672 هـ
Title: Kitāb al-Mafrūḍāt
Title: كتاب المفروضات لثابت بن قرّة

Of Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 511
UAM. 960 (6)
8. ff. 70v-77v
Author: Archimedes أرشميدس 287-212 ق.م
Translator: Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901 ثابت بن قرة، 211-288 هـ
Title: Kitāb al-Maʼkhūdhāt
Title: كتاب المأخوذات
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 217
UAM. 960 (7)
9. ff. 78-89
Author: Banū Mūsá ibn Shākir بنو موسى بن شاكر
Title: Maʻrifat misāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kurīyah
Title: معرفة مساحة الأشكال البسيطة والكرية

With commentary by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 216
UAM. 960 (8), with corrig. Nicoll p. 603

Physical Description

Form: codex
4 ff. 2 ff. 25 ff. 4 ff. 9 ff. 18 ff. 7 ff. 8 ff. 12 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Mathematici in quarto &c. no. 2].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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JISC

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