Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
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NASIR AL-DIN TUSI (D.1274), AL-MAJMU’A AL-SHARIFA, TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK MATHEMATICAL TEXTS INCLUDING EUCLID AND ARCHIMEDES, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, CIRCA 1600
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NASIR AL-DIN TUSI (D.1274), AL-MAJMU’A AL-SHARIFA, TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK MATHEMATICAL TEXTS INCLUDING EUCLID AND ARCHIMEDES, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, CIRCA 1600
Arabic manuscript on polished paper, 54 leaves plus 6 fly-leaves, 18 lines to the page, written in neat black naskh script, occasional words picked out in red, numerous diagrams throughout illustrating solid and spherical geometry, f.1a with seal impression giving date 1010 AH (1601 AD), maroon leather binding
25.8 by 18.2cm.
Ex-collection Oliver Hoare (1945-2018).
The present compendium contains the following three works:
Tahrir kitab al-mu’tayat li-Uqlidis, an exposition of the book 'Data' by Euclid. Translated by Ishaq and corrected by Thabit ibn Qurra, 95 diagrams.
Tahrir kitab al-ukar li-Thawdhusyus, an exposition of the book 'Spherics' by Theodosius, in three maqalah and 95 diagrams. Ordered to be translated from Greek to Arabic by Abu’l-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Mu’tasim. Translated by Qusta ibn Luca al-Ba’albaki until the fifth diagram of the third maqalah, with the remainder translated and corrected by Thabit ibn Qurra.
Tahrir kitab al-kura al-mutaharrika li-Utuluqus, an exposition of the book on the 'Moving Sphere' of Autolycus corrected by Thabit ibn Qurra and composed of 1 maqalah and 13 diagrams.
The great scholar and polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-74 AD) was responsible for editions of most of the Greek astronomical and mathematical works that had been translated into Arabic in the eighth to tenth centuries. His enormous output in such editions or recensions was almost matched by his own independent works on those subjects. For a list of his works see B.A. Rosenfeld & E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers & Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their works (7th-19th c.), Istanbul, 2003, 211-9).