MS. Huntington 308 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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5 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Euclid's Elements, Geometry, and Consensus

1. ff. 1r-57r
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
Title: Taḥrīr Uṣūl al-handasah

A commentary on Euclidʼs Elements. Defective, lacking maqālah 1-3 and the beginning of maqalah 4

Fol. 57v-58v contain matter supplementary to Euclidʼs Book 15

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 510
[UAM. 906 (1)]
2.
Author: Muḥaqqiq al-Kāẓimī, Asad Allāh ibn Ismāʻīl
Title: Kashf al-qināʻ ʻan wujūh ḥujjīyat al-ijmāʻ

Reprint of the 1317 [1899] edition.

Language(s): Arabic
3. ff. 59r-75r
Author: Theodosius, 1st cent. B.C.
Title: Kitāb Ukar
Title: Sphaerica

Neither translator nor reviser mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 204
[UAM. 906 (2)]
4. ff. 75v-77v
Author: Autolykos
Title: al-Kurah al-mutaḥarrikah

? translated by Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901 , in the redaction of Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 ; no transr. or edr. mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 217
[UAM. 906 (3)]
5. ff. 78r-92v
Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī d. c. 1034
Title: Iṣlāḥ kitāb Menelaos fī al-kurīyāt

[Sphaerica], in 3 books

SAUG §111 (b), p. 197 (189), who thinks it may be prior to the recension by Ṭūsī

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 472
[UAM. 906 (4)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
57 ff. [Qum], 17 ff. 3 ff. 15 ff.

History

Origin: 1460 CE [ca. 1980]. CE n.d. n.d. n.d.

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.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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