Article ID: CBB001321046

Building the Stemma Codicum from Geometric Diagrams (2014)

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In view of the progress made in recent decades in the fields of stemmatology and the analysis of geometric diagrams, the present article explores the possibility of establishing the stemma codicum of a handwritten tradition from geometric diagrams alone. This exploratory method is tested on Ibn al-Haytham's Epistle on the Shape of the Eclipse, because this work has not yet been issued in a critical edition. Separate stemmata were constructed on the basis of the diagrams and the text, and a comparison showed no major differences. The greater reliability of a stemma codicum constructed on the basis of the diagrams rather than the text of a mathematical work is discussed, and preliminary conclusions are drawn.

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Authors & Contributors
Rashed, Roshdi
Carman, Christián Carlos
Lo, Melissa
Samsó, Julio
Saito, Ken
Sabra, A. I.
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Mathematics
Geometry
Diagrams
Transmission of texts
Visual representation; visual communication
Time Periods
11th century
Medieval
10th century
9th century
17th century
Renaissance
Places
Baghdad (Iraq)
Florence (Italy)
Greece
China
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