This paper is a study, based on four medieval manuscripts, of al-Harawī’s edition of Menelaus’ Spherics, the oldest version of this treatise in our manuscript sources. We provide a critical edition and translation of a number of key passages. We show that this version of the text can be used to elucidate some of Menelaus’ concerns as a mathematician, to study al-Harawī’s work as an editor and as a mathematical scholar, and to understand the early
efforts of the ʿAbbāsid translators of technical works into Arabic.

Al-Harawī’s Version of Menelaus’ Spherics

L'A. cherche a determiner les sources utilisees par Maurolico pour sa version des «Spheriques» de Menelaos. Il compare cette version a la version latine medievale de Gerard de Cremone. Il en conclut que si la version de Gerard de Cremone a du servir de guide a Maurolico, celui-ci a egalement utilise un manuscrit arabo-musulman du 13 e siecle de Jamal ad-Din

A.-K. Taha

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Sur les sources de la version de Francesco Maurolico des Sphériques de Ménélaos