Robert of Chester's Latin translation of the Algebra of al-Khowarizmi . ere are sometwelve agreements with the Dresden and Vienna Mss., and varia-tions from the Scheybl text. However, one agreement with theScheybl manuscript shows either familiarity with Scheybls work,or a common source other than the Vienna and Dresden title Liber Algebrae et Almucabola, de quaestionibus arith-meticis et geometricis appears only in the Romain fragment and inScheybls text; and somewhat similarly the word creatori after Laus deo in line 10, page 66, is common to the Romain versionand the other Mss. exce
Robert of Chester's Latin translation of the Algebra of al-Khowarizmi . ere are sometwelve agreements with the Dresden and Vienna Mss., and varia-tions from the Scheybl text. However, one agreement with theScheybl manuscript shows either familiarity with Scheybls work,or a common source other than the Vienna and Dresden title Liber Algebrae et Almucabola, de quaestionibus arith-meticis et geometricis appears only in the Romain fragment and inScheybls text; and somewhat similarly the word creatori after Laus deo in line 10, page 66, is common to the Romain versionand the other Mss. except the Vienna Ms. The fragment of our text in Codex Dresden C. 8om, which wehave reproduced above, follows exactly none of the other omissions do not occur, but the spellings and transpositionsagree sometimes with the Vienna, sometimes with the Dresdenreadings; in one instance wz/for nihil, the agreement is with theRomain fragment as opposed to the Vienna and Dresden C. 80readings. This fragment, then, appears also to be based on aparent of the extant
Size: 1274px × 1961px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidrobertofches, bookyear1915
