The Production and Transmission of Hebrew Miscellanies on Greek Geometry: A Case Study of MS Madrid, BNE 5474

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Of all Hebrew miscellanies on Greek geometry, MS Madrid, BNE 5474 is the only one containing a set of works which includes Euclid’s Elements, Data and Optics, besides On mirrors, often attributed to him, Theodosius of Bithynia’s Spherics, Menelaus of Alexandria’s Spherica and Autolycus of Pytane’s On the Moving Sphere. Moreover, the manuscript also contains the anonymous treatise On Two Asymptotic Lines and a fragment of Abraham bar Hiyya’s Foundations of Understanding and Tower of Faith.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.549
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.548
Metadata Access https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/oai2d?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:fdr.uni-hamburg.de:549
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Creator Del Barco, Javier
Publisher Universität Hamburg
Publication Year 2013
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Open Access; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Resource Type Journal article; Text
Discipline Other