Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد [‎317v] (15/65)

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Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد

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Ref: Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v

The record is made up of Ff. 310v-342v. It was created in 1182. It was written in Persian and Farsi. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني). The treatise is meant as a supplement to Ibn Sīnā's Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ (حكمة علائي), more commonly known by its Persian title The Book of Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ (دانشنامه علائى), which presented in Persian his teachings on logic, metaphysics, and physics.

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Contents:

Treatise on the Elements of Geometry (رساله در اصلهاى هندسه, ff. 310v-320v);
Treatise on the Science of Observation and Organisation of the Heavens (رساله در علم رصد وهيات سمان, ff. 320v-332v);
Treatise on the Science of Arithmetic (رساله در ارثماطيقى, ff. 332v-338r);
Treatise on the Science of Music (رساله در علم موسيقى, ff. 338r-342v).

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Ff. 310v-342v

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Persian and Farsi in Arabic script

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Reference: Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v
Title: Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
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