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Manuscript/Mixed Material Mukhtaṣar al-Nuzhah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb مختصر النزهة في علم الحساب /

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Title

  • Mukhtaṣar al-Nuzhah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb

Other Title

  • مختصر النزهة في علم الحساب /

Summary

  • Abridgement of Ibn al-Hāʼim's Nuzhat al-ḥisāb on arithmetic.

Names

  • Ḥaṭṭāb, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad, 1496 or 1497-1586 or 1587
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 26 Shaʻbān 1107 [31 March 1696]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Nuzhat al-ḥisāb
  • -  Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār
  • -  Arithmetic--Early works to 1800
  • -  Mathematics--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Muḥammad ibn Malik(?) ibn Ibrāhīm al-Madanī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; polished, medium cream color laid paper with faint horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; most leaves have extensive marginal notes; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 125.1; SII p. 154.1
  • -  Naskh; 29 lines in written area 16.5 x 7.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-11b.
  • -  "83. IX [772] = 5.717."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-717.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله الواحد الاحد الفرد الصمد منشي الامم من نفس واحده ... وبعد فهذه مقدمة في علم الحساب ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تم نسخها على يد اضعف العباد وراجي رحمة في الدنيا ويوم التناد محمد بن ملك(؟) بن ابراهيم المدني في 26 شعبان سنة 1107...

Medium

  • 11 leaves (29 lines), paper : bound ; 21.3 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA101 .I2552 1696

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496853

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Ḥaṭṭāb, Yaḥyá Ibn Muḥammad, 1496 Or Or 1587, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Mukhtaṣar al-Nuzhah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb. [26 Shaʻbān 31 March 1696, 1107] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496853/.

APA citation style:

Ḥaṭṭāb, Y. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1107) Mukhtaṣar al-Nuzhah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb. [26 Shaʻbān 31 March 1696] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496853/.

MLA citation style:

Ḥaṭṭāb, Yaḥyá Ibn Muḥammad, 1496 Or Or 1587, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Mukhtaṣar al-Nuzhah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb. [26 Shaʻbān 31 March 1696, 1107] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496853/>.