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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā kitāb al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm هذا كتيب النزهة الحساب لابن هائم

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Title

  • Hādhā kitāb al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm

Other Title

  • هذا كتيب النزهة الحساب لابن هائم

Summary

  • According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār.

Names

  • Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Ḥanbalī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, scribe
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 10 Jumādá al-awwal 1187 [30 July 1773 ]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār
  • -  Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
  • -  Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified; written for his teacher ʻUmar al-ʻAdawī al-Mālikī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection,1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; thick, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size; black ink with numerals written in red with some overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 23 lines in written area 17 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-18a.
  • -  "H-1143 = 5.711."
  • -  Library of Congress. Arabic manuscripts, 5-711.
  • -  Binding; brown quarter leather with reddish pink and blue marbled paper sides over cardboard.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. أما بعد حمد الله تعالى الواحد بكل وجه واعتبار والصلوة والسلام على نبيه محمد خير من اختار وعلى اله وصحبه وأزواجه البررة الأطهار، فان كتابي الموسوم بالمرشدة فى صناعة الغبار لما تلقى بالقبول وحظي بالانتشار كلف به صديق لي يهوى الاختصار فألتمس منى أن ألخصه مبالغا فى الاختصار ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ من ذلك ليلة السبت المبارك عاشر شهر جمادى الاولى سنة 1187 من الهجرة الالنبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التسليم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم.

Medium

  • 18 leaves (23 lines) 21.7 x 17 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA101 .I255 1773

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503240

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Ibn Al-HāʼIm, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad, -1412, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ḥanbalī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā kitāb al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm. [10 Jumādá al-awwal 30 July 1773, 1772] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503240/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-HāʼIm, A. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A., Ḥanbalī, A. I. Q. I. A. I. M. & Mansuri Collection. (1772) Hādhā kitāb al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm. [10 Jumādá al-awwal 30 July 1773] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503240/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-HāʼIm, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad, -1412, et al. Hādhā kitāb al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm. [10 Jumādá al-awwal 30 July 1773, 1772] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503240/>.