5 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Sundials, Mechanical engineering, Algebra, Astronomy, and Geometry

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Title

5 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Sundials, Mechanical engineering, Algebra, Astronomy, and Geometry

Shelfmark

MS. Greaves 3

Language

Arabic

1. ff. 2r-29r Author: Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maʻrūf, 1525 or 6-1585 Title: Rayḥānat al-rūḥ fī rasm al-sāʻāt ʻalá mustawī al-suṭūḥ

2. ff. 30r-37r Author: Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maʻrūf, 1525 or 6-1585 Title: Kitāb al-Thimār al-yāniʻah fī quṭūf al-ālat al-jāmiʻah

3. ff. 39r-42v Author: Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maʻrūf, 1525 or 6-1585 Title: al-Nisab al-mutashākilah fī ʻilmay al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah

4. fols. 43r-54r Author: Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʻūd, d. ca. 1436 Title: al-Risālah al-kamālīyah fī maqādīr al-ajrām al-falakīyah

5. ff. 54v-59r Author: Anonymous Title: A work on three or four geometrical problems, in reply to Muḥammad Efendī Baqqāl-zādah

Form

codex

Physical extent

28 ff. 8 ff. 4 ff. 12 fols. 6 ff.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1678.

Provenance

The collections of John Greaves, d. 1652 and Thomas Greaves, d. 1676.

Subject

Geometry

Mechanical engineering

Astronomy

Algebra--Early works to 1800

Sundials--Early works to 1800

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