| Manuscript Title: | | Alhacen De Perspectiva |
| Alternative Title:
| | Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), Perspectiva
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| Physical Description: | | Double columns of 45 lines. In a clear hand, black ink. Marginal notes in several hands, some very minute. Well-drawn diagrams. The lower corners of the leaves are very tender from damp. |
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| Provenance: | | On f.1 'Babington' (xvi) and
Liber Tho. Bulkley ex dono doctoris Babin(gton).Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. Old mark gone (A. 26). |
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| Donor: | | Gale, Roger (1672-1744), antiquary |
| Size (inches): | | 13.75 x 9.75 |
| Collation: | | 112-1412 (wants 10-12 blank). |
| Second Folio:
| | libus et quod
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Alhacen de perspectiua (without title).
f.1 Inuenimus uisum quando
Ends f.165a: nunc autem terminemus hunc tractatum qui est finis libri etc. Deo gracias.
Expl. liber haten filii hucayni filii hayten. De aspectibus.
Three paragraphs on light, in a smaller hand, follow.
On the verso a xvith cent. scribble
Bangor dioc.
Villa bode...
and others. |
Sabra, A. I., 'The authorship of the "Liber de crepusculis", an eleventh-century work on atmospheric refraction', Isis 58 (1967), 77-85
Smith, A. M., ed., Alhacen theory of visual perception: a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of the first three books of Alhacen's De aspectibus, the medieval Latin version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir (Philadelphia, 2001)
Smith, A. M., ed., Alhacen on the Principles of Reflection : a Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of Books 4 and 5 of Alhacen's De Aspectibus [the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; 96 (Philadelphia, 2006) 2 vols. |
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