O.5.15 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)
Oriental Manuscripts
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1 copy of Kitāb Aristarkhūs fī jurmay al-nayyirayn
An Arabic translation of Aristarchus' Greek astronomical treatise on the sun and the moon, probably by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad.
Incipit: يضع أن القمر يقبل الضو من الشمس إلخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Hand(s)
Inelegant European handwriting
Decoration
Illustrated with seventeen diagrams
History
Origin: Undated
Record Sources
"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Trinity College Cambridge
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