MS. Huntington 237 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Huntington Collection
Contents
4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Euclid's Elements, Geometry, and Astronomy
1. ff. 1r-76r
SAUG §90, p. 168
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 469
UAM. 908 (1)
2. ff. 76r-82r
Title: al-Kurah al-mutaḥarrikah
Translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 206
UAM. 908 (2)
3. ff. 82r-104v
Title: An abridgment (on the trisection of the right angle) of part of Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ʼs Iṣlāḥ K. al-Makhrūṭāt [of Apollonius, of Perga *]
*ascribed in the colophon to Autolycus, and entitled the 5th of the Muwassiṭāt [?= Mutawassiṭāt of Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 ]
cf., for Abū Jaʻfarʼs work, Algiers 1446/10
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 219
UAM. 908 (3)
4. ff. 104v-123r
Language(s): Arabic
References
Appendix Astronomy
UAM. 908 (4)
Physical Description
Form: codex
76 ff. 7 ff. 23 ff. 20 ff.
History
Origin: 1579 CE 1579 CE 1579 CE 1579 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.
Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.
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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