Je me suis présenté comme “artiste et copiste néoplatonicien”.
Les réponses à ma demande de consultation des
manuscrits ont été favorables à quelques exceptions
près.
Les réponses à ma demande de photographier sur
place ont été négatives la plupart du temps.
Liste des manuscrits des Éléments d’Euclide dans
chaque bibliothèque.

9 mss des Eléments :
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ms. Sloane 285. (Adelard version) XIIIe
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ms. Sloane 1044. (Adelard. II Liv X-XI) XIIIe
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ms. Harley 5266.(Gerard + Campanus version) XIVe
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ms. Harley 3595 Pergament, 285x195mm "Boethius Geometrie II"
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ms Burney 275. XIVe, a de luxe edition. 14 liv. "Adelard. I".
Liv. 7-8. Liv. I-VI: adelard II
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ms. Royal 10.A.7 XIIIe Liv.I Adelard.II
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ms. Royal 15.B.IV, XIIIe liv. X-XII Adelard.II et III
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ms. Royal 15. A. XXVII, "Joan Ocreatus = Adelard II" XIIe. 15 liv.
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ms. Arundel 339 "Boethius Geometrie II" Pergament, 200x140mm. XIIIe
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ms. Add. 34, 018. "Adelard II" John Ocreat, "Ex Ocrea Johannis".
XIIe. Liv I-XV.
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ms. Add. 33, 381. Liv III-IV et V-VI: "Adelard II". XIIIe
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Londres, British Museum, arabe: 974, 1334, 1335, Nasir ad Din at Tusi
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India Office 6 mss
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ms 736 à 740: version de Nasir ad Din at Tusi, petite édition
tahrir(1248)
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ms 744: Persan
Bodleian Library,Western manuscripts = Duke Humfrey's Library)
10 mss
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Codex Bodleianus, D'Orville. 301. in-4°, parchemin; daté 6397 création du monde = 888. 15 livres.
scholies de la main d'Arethas (865-939).(Heiberg)
diagrams are in all cases given.
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Codex Bodleianus, D'Orville.69. Grec daté: 1500. papier. 15 Liv.
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Codex Bodleianus, D'Orville.70. 15 livres. Adelard: liv VII-XV.
XIIIe. parchment leaf. 15 Liv. Diagrams clearly made. Osiris 11, p.359.
Marshall Clagett: " While examining a Bodleian manuscript, D'Orville 70,
I discovered tucked away in the middle of Euclid's Elements a short uncatalogued
Latin translation of an arabic tract on the hyperbola. This tract is in
a thirteenth century hand".
The treatise on two lines always approaching each other but never meeting.
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Digby 174. XIIe. Liv XI-XIV: Gérard de Crémone.
Liv I-XI. Adelard III. figures carefully done.
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Canon. misc. 200. acquis en 1409 par Antonio Fontesello pour sa bibliothèque
de Venise. El. + Pecham's Perspeciva.
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Canon. misc. 145. Gérard C. liv III.
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Can, misc. 554. Campanus version
- Barocci 161
Greek. Codex bombycinus, sec XV.
Procli Lycii in Euclidis Elementorum librum primum commentarii, libris quatuor comprehensi,
cum figuris in margine delineatis. fol1.
Euclidis Catoptrica. fol. 196.
Ejusdem Phænomena. fol 206 b.
Ejusdem Optica. fol 320 b.
Ejusdem Data. fol 341 b.
Ejusdem Phænomena. fol 206 b.
- Auct. F. 6. 23. Euclid, Elementa, Optica. Greek. 14th century. Paper
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Auct. F. 5.28 Adelard. parchment. XIIIe. Good diagrams.
- Auct. F. 5. 29
Astrological and other treatises. || Euclid. || Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea, Bks. I-III.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 14th century, first half || 13th century, second half || 13th century, late
Material parchment
Decoration Good historiated and other diagrams.
- Auct. F. 3. 16. Euclid, Elementa. Greek. 15th century, end. Paper
- Auct. F. 3.13 "Adelard II" XIIIe illuminated capitals 15 liv.
Composite fols. 1-104 || fols. 105-226
Summary of contents Euclid. Ptolemy, Centiloquium.
Boethius, De institutione musica. Arzachel, Canones. || Anon. (ascr.
Gerardus Cremonensis), Theorica Planetarum, and other astronomical
texts.
Origin English
Date 13th century, second half || c. 1300
Material parchment, paper
Decoration Good diagrams, initials. Heraldic sketch
added c. 1500, fol. 66v (P&A iii. 510) || Good diagrams (some
representational), initials.
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Saville. 19. Lat. parchment. XIIIe. Adelard: liv I-V. diagrams. 15 liv.
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Saville. 13. Grec. paper. XIVe. Liv 1, 2. diagrams, scholia.
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Arch Selden B.13. Lat. parchment XIIe. illuminated border, capital... Euclidis
philosophi Socratici... Adelard cum Campanus. 15 liv with many diagrams.
Oriental manuscripts 7 mss
Revision of the Elements by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, 3ms:
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MS Marsh 621 (Uri 1012)
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MS Marsh 373 (Uri 949)
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MS Huntington 308 (Uri 906)
Tahrir (révision) de Ibn Abi al-Shukr al-Maghribi (XIIIe)
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MS Bodl. Or. n°448. (Nicoll 280)
Ishaq ibn Hunayn (seconde moitié IXe) revisé par Thabit
Ibn Qurrah (836-901)
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MS Huntington 435 (Uri 919).
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MS Thurston 11 (Uri 958 et Nicoll 279).
A commentary on the postulates of Euclid by Ibn al Haytham
MS Neubauer. Heb. 2002. Mich 405. Ol. 63
Livres I-XV.
copie du 6 Tevet 5334. (25 décembre 1574) par Y'hudah ben Abraham Zarqo. Span. Rabb. char. Paper.
Colophon du Liv XV (fol.152a): "Le quinzième
traité de l'ouvrage d'Euclide le savant est achevé; je
l'ai traduit de l'arabe en hébreu, moi Moïse ben Samuel ben
Juda ben Tibbon, de Genade en Espagne".
* MS Neubauer. Heb. 2003. Hunt. 561. Uri 451.
The same with figures
Livres I-XV. copie de 1395 à Candie, Crète par Abraham ibn Mosheh.
Greek Rabb. char. paper (some vellum)
* MS Neubauer. Heb. 2004. Mich 358.
the same. Prop VI.19 à X.101.
Oxford trinity college
Ms. 47. XIIe Oxoniensis (Adelard I. version). diagrams in the margin
are quite accurately drawn and lettered. 8 liv:
"Institutio artis geometrice ab Euclide descripta XV libros continens,
per Adelardum Batoniensam ex arabico in latinum sermonem translata, incipit"
Oxford, Corpus Christi College Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JF
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Ms 251, "Adelard II", XIIIe. 15liv
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Ms 234, Campanus + anonyme XVe
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Ms 283, XIIIe liv. X-XI Adelard II.
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Ms 224, XIIIe. 15liv. Adelard II.
The Library of the late George
A. Plimpton
autorisation consultation
156 Euclides, Geometria, cum commento Campani. Vel. (13OO) (26x18cm) disparu,
volé
157 Euclides, Elementa, book I, cum commento Campani, followed by mnemotchnic
verses. Pap. (1450) (21x15cm). Written in Germany.
158 Euclides, Elementa. Vel. (14th c.), 1 fol. only (29x19cm), with
diagramms in the margins
160 Euclides, Elementa, books I-V. . (late 14th c.) Papier, 30x21cm
164. Boethius Geometria. Pap. XVIth c. (34x23cm)
165. Boethius Arithmetica, Euclides Geometria, with commentary
by Campanus. Vel. (late XIIIth c.) (27x20cm)
"The Euclid, written so far as the text goes, in large letters with
the comentary in smaller letters, must be set down to the end of the thirteenth
century. The text of the translation is what which is ascribed to Adelard
of Bath, who wrote it early in the twelfth century, when he was studying
Greek and Arabic in Naples. ... Such an early and complete MS is hardly
to be found outside the public librairies. It formely belonged to the monastery
of St Martin at Tournai, and is mentionned by Antonius Sanderus in his
Biblioteca Belgica, 1641.
214. Euclides, Libri I-III, translated from greek into latin by Zambertus.
Vel(early XVIth c.) (12x8cm)
X 515 Eu2 Euclides Tratado de la geometria especulatiba. Ms, undated,
ca 1700. planches pliées à la fin de chaque livre, récapitulant
quelques figures.
159 Euclides, Elementa, parts of books III-IV, Vel. (England 14th c.).
6 ff. only. (22x17cm). diagramms in the margins. vu
166. Boethius Arithmetica. Vel. XIIIth c. (19x13)cm. Geometrical figures:
oui mais d'arithmétique (nombres figurés).
188. Flores arismetrice; Mohammed Ibn-Musaal-Khawarazmi. Introductorium
breve super Elementa Euclidis (ff. 211-233). Pap. (1456-1501), 22x15cm.
Written in Germany. vu: triangles rectangles avec applications numériques.
513 Euclides Def and proofs from the first six books French, 18th cent.
daté 1750. 13.4x8.7cm. non folioté. Papier blanchâtre,
deux marges verticales et horizontale supérieure. Écriture
fine noire "ronde". I.1, fine, noire, règle et commpas, sans lettres.
I.5 idem, légèrement effacée
I.47 idem.. IV.11 .. VI.33
Elements of geometry by Euclid by Sjoerd Hofstra, published by Zet Amsterdam
New York. 1994. 10 copies signées.
Autres Bibliothèques U.S.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus. i.29 University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia
+3ème siècle 8.5x 15.2cm. figure II.5 is drawn without rule,
free-hand, and carelessly (and is unlabelled)
B.N. 189.4. The library of James Logan (1674- 1751) of Philadelphia.
Livres:
701. Paris 1516
702. Paris 1557.
703 Elementorum Geometricorum Libri Tredecim (Tr. Nasir-al-Dib)
Rome, In Typographia Medicea, 1594. arabe et latin
704. Libri. XV. Accessit liber XVI. Clavius. Frankfurt, 1607
705. Libri. XV. Isaac Barrow. London, 1678.
706. David Gregory, Oxford 1703.
The Boston Medical Library, 8 the Fenway, Boston,
Massachusetts.
25. Euclides, Elementa, in the Latin version of Adelard
of Bath,(ff. 1-38). Pap. 1466, (21x15cm). Written in Austria by Matheus
Patriarch, of Graz. Diagrams and illum. borders.
General Library of the university of California, Berkeley.
Ms Mar 35 Euclid Elementa, libr; XV.. Hieronymi Campani.
Vel 26x17cm, xritten in Italy, 15 th c. "15 illuminated initials,
1 illuminated border; marginal illustrations.
The Library of R.B. Honeyman, Jr., Rancho Los Cerrittos,
San Juan Capistrano, California
24 (Math.1) Euclid Elementa, Vel. 21x17cm, written in Italy,
14 th c. Geometrical diagrams in margins