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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-muqābalah المبدع في شرح المقنع في علم الجبر والمقابلة /

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Title

  • al-Mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-muqābalah

Other Title

  • المبدع في شرح المقنع في علم الجبر والمقابلة /

Names

  • Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1423-approximately 1520
  • Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Shaʻbān 1315 [December/January 1897/1898]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
  • -  Algebra--Early works to 1800
  • -  Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined
  • -  Paper: cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a crescent moon with a human face in a Swiss-style shield; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann: GAL, SII, p. 155
  • -  Naskh; 15 lines in written area 10.5 x 6 cm.
  • -  Pages 1-91, numbered by scribe.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-735.
  • -  Binding: brown quarter leather with black grain sides; most of the text block loose.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ابو يحيى زكريا الانصاري الشافعيرحمه الله: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جبر قلوب العلماء بإمداد جذره المتيى، وفتح لهم باب استخراج المجهول من المعلوم الرزين ... وبعد فإن المقنع المنظوم على بحر الطويل فى علم الجبر والمقابلة للإمام المحقق والبحر المدقق أبى العباس شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد بن على الشهير بابن الهائم الشافعي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وكان التعؤها في شهر شعبان المعظم سنة 1315 هجرية اللهم اغفر مكاتبها ولقارئها ولمئلفها والمسمين اجمعين والحمد لله اولا واخرا وظاهر[ا] وباطنا تمت بالمسك عمت وصلى اللع على سيدنا محمد وعلى سصحبه وسلم. تمت.

Medium

  • 91 pages (numbered) (15 lines), paper : bound ; 19 x 13.1 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA154.8 .I26433 1897

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498345

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:

Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Approximately Approximately 1520, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Al-HāʼIm, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-muqābalah. [Shaʻbān December/January 1897/1898, 1315] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498345/.

APA citation style:

Anṣārī, Z. I. M., Ibn Al-HāʼIm, A. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1315) al-Mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-muqābalah. [Shaʻbān December/January 1897/1898] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498345/.

MLA citation style:

Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Approximately Approximately 1520, et al. al-Mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-muqābalah. [Shaʻbān December/January 1897/1898, 1315] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498345/>.