The manuscript number 772 of La Bibliothèque nationale de France

The manuscript number 772 of La Bibliothèque nationale de France is an important source for the history of mathematics, perticularly in Persian. This collection includes 24 mathematical treatises written in Persian, among them there is a translation of Abū al-Wafā Būzjānī (10 June 940 – 15 July 998) book, titled Kitab al-Najārat. This work is pivotal for the research on the topic of Islamic architecture and on the relationship between geometry and architecture in Islamic period.

This collection is a set of several important Persian treatises about theoretical and practical matters in arithmetic and geometry. It consists of matters, such as astrolabe manufacture, cities longitude computation, trigonometric tables calculation, Introduction of certain numbers and their properties, Finding the direction of Qibla and the practical geometry.

This page includes information, refrences and works related to this manuscript. The manuscript is also known as Persan 169.

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List of treaties

1. The twenty chapter on Astrolabe by Tusi

2. A treatise on Arithmetic by Mahmoud ibn Mohammed ibn Qavam al-Qazi al-Yalishtani (f.18v).

3. The tables of straight sine and inverse sine (between two tables there is a short part related to calculation of Saham) (f.35v)

4. On the two numbers which one is common divisor of another, which they have a common divisor other than one, which they have no common divisor; on the square root and the method for its verification (f.37v)

5. A schematic map for finding Qibla (f.42r)

6. A treatise on finding the Qibla (f.42v)

7. A treatise on Geometry titled Doraj al-jawahir wa boraj al-zawahir (f.49v)

8. On the knowledge of survey of lands and places (f.63r)

9. An abridged treatise on the knowledge of area (f.65v), in 8 chapter

10. A treatise on Geometry (f.70v) cf. section 4

11. A treatise on Geometry (f.90v) cf. section 4

12. A treatise on a question related to inheritance (f.100v)

13. On the six types of algebraic problems (f.101r)

14. An Arabic translation of Euclid Element's Second book (f.102v)

15. An Arabic treatise on Double Errors by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (f.105r)

16. An Arabic treatise on Polygons (f.106r)

17. A table on Algebraic statements (multiplication and division) (f.107v)

18. On the rare calculator problem (f.119r)

19. On the continued square roots (f.120v)

20. The technics by Abū Bakr al-Khalīl al-Tājir al-Raṣadī (f.124v)

21. The five circles in extracting the hidden letters (f.139r)

22. The choices on base of lune traject by Nasir al-din Tusi (f.140r)

23. The translation of Buzjani's book fī-mā yaḥtāju ilayhi al-Kottāb wa al- ommāl wa qayri hom min elmi al-hisāb (manāzil u al- sab'a) (f.141v)

24. On the overlap of similar or compatible shapes (f.180r)

25. On the calculator by fingers by Sharaf al-Din ʿAli Yazdi (d. 1454) (f.200r)