An Exciting New Arabic Version of Euclid's Elements: MS Mumbai, MULLĀ FĪRŪZ R.I.6
[Une passionante nouvelle version arabe des Éléments d'Euclide : MS Mumbai, MULLĀ FĪRŪZ R.I.6]
Revue d'histoire des mathématiques, Tome 12 (2006) no. 2, pp. 169-197.

Cet article présente une version arabe, anonyme et non datée des Éléments d'Euclide. Il vise à déterminer la relation de cette version à l'histoire textuelle des Éléments arabes telle qu'on la connaît aujourd'hui. Cette version est jugée intéressante pour le rapport étroit qu'elle entretient avec les ouvrages du premier traducteur connu des Éléments d'Euclide en arabe, pour les informations nouvelles qu'elle offre sur des débats philosophiques concernant les Éléments et finalement pour la base textuelle nouvelle qu'elle met à notre disposition pour des études plus approfondies sur la première période de l'histoire des Éléments d'Euclide en arabe.

This paper introduces an anonymous and undated Arabic version of Euclid's Elements. It tries to determine its relationship to the textual history of the Arabic Elements as known today. The value of the version, the paper argues, is its close relationship to the works of the first known translator of Euclid's Elements into Arabic, al-Ḥajjāj b.Yūsuf b.Maṭar, the light it sheds on philosophical debates surrounding the Elements, and the new textual basis (BooksI toIX with some lacunae) it yields for the further study of the early history of Euclid's Elements in Arabic.

Mots-clés : history of texts, transmission of Euclid's elements in arabic 
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Brentjes, Sonja. An Exciting New Arabic Version of Euclid's Elements: MS Mumbai, MULLĀ FĪRŪZ R.I.6. Revue d'histoire des mathématiques, Tome 12 (2006) no. 2, pp. 169-197. http://archive.numdam.org/item/RHM_2006__12_2_169_0/

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