Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 667

Source

Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)

Library

Oxford. Bodleian Library

Shelfmark

• Bodleian Library MS. Marsh 667

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q211338

Language

• Arabic

Title

• Conica. Book 1-7

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Apollonius de Perga (0262?-0190? av. J.-C.)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Apollonius of Perga

  Other form

  • APOLLONIUS Pergæus
  • Apollonius Pergaeus (0262?-0190? av. J.-C.)
  • Abūlūnuyūs al-Nağğār al-Handasī

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  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q1656

Description

• The Conica of Apollonius of Perga ‘the great geometer’ (c. 262-190 BCE) were translated into Arabic in the 9th century CE. Of the original eight books, 1-4 survive in Greek, 5-7 are preserved only in Arabic translation, and the eighth is lost. The Arabic translators were Hilāl ibn Abī Hilāl al-Ḥimṣī (Books 1-4) and Thābit ibn Qurrah (Books 5-7). Edmund Halley made use of this fine copy in preparing his complete edition of the Conica, printed at Oxford in 1710 CE.

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Digitisation

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