表題番号：2009A-934
日付：2010/04/09
研究課題メネラオス『球面論』の中世版の検討
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 国際学術院 | 講師（任期付） | シドリ ネイサン カミッロ |
- 研究成果概要
- Report on the progress of the research on Menelaus's Spherics in medieval Arabic sources (メネラオス『球面論』の中世版の検討).
In the first year of this project, we have acquired all of the necessary research materials, made a preliminary reading of the manuscripts and begun to edit and translate the text. The final product will be a monograph study of the text, including a critical edition of Menelaus' Spherics, English translation and mathematical and philological commentary.
We have acquired microfilms of the following manuscripts: Ahmet III 3464 (A), Leiden Or. 399 (L), Kraus MB (K). These are the only known manuscripts that contain al-Harawi's verion of Menelaus' Spherics. We have also acquired a number of manuscripts of al-Tusi's later version of the Menelaus' Spherics (Princeton Garrett 105B, Copenhagen AC 27, Tehran Tabriz NL 3484). We have also had these images transferred to electronic files, to facilitate study. We have acquired the essential books and papers related to this project, so that we will have the secondary literature readily available as we proceed with our research.
In the first year, we have made a preliminary reading of the three manuscripts which indicates that A and L are versions of the original al-Harawi edition of the text, whereas K is a heavily edited redaction, which appears to stem from the A tradition.
Hence, we have begun an edition and translation of the text based on AL. The variations of K are indicated in the critical apparatus, but are generally not included in the edited text itself. Nathan SIDOLI has completed about 50 pages of edition and translation, and Takanori KUSUBA (Osaka University of Economics) has completed about the same number of pages. Kusuba is working on the first chapter of the text, while Sidoli is working on the second and third chapters. At this rate of progress, the edition and translation will be done in the next year, and it will take another six months to a year to produce a monograph for publication.