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كتاب في معرفة المقادير من الاقرارات والوصايا والمجهول بطريق الجبر والمقابلة والهندي وغير ذالك ... [الخ.]
Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-maqādīr min al-iqrārāt wa-al-waṣāyā wa-al-majhūl bi-ṭarīq al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah wa-al-Hindī wa-ghayr dhālik ... [etc.]
1300-1399
A work on algebra illustrated with numerous examples. The work deals with the processes of integration and simple equations, surveying, and testamentary regulations for division of inheritances. Followed by another short text on the same topic.
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A work on algebra illustrated with numerous examples. The work deals with the processes of integration and simple equations, surveying, and testamentary regulations for division of inheritances. Followed by another short text on the same topic.
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- Title
- كتاب في معرفة المقادير من الاقرارات والوصايا والمجهول بطريق الجبر والمقابلة والهندي وغير ذالك ... [الخ.]
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-maqādīr min al-iqrārāt wa-al-waṣāyā wa-al-majhūl bi-ṭarīq al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah wa-al-Hindī wa-ghayr dhālik ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 529H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbv73c922s
- Publisher
- [13--]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1300-1399
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 40 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 192 x 150 (127 x 105-115) mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature of ʻAbd al-Dalīl ibn [...] al-Mīqātī dated 989. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1045.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a-38b: Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-maqādīr min al-iqrārāt wa-al-waṣāyā wa-al-majhūl bi-ṭarīq al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah wa-al-Hindī wa-ghayr dhālik.
- 2. fol. 39a-40b: Risālat al-Qawāmī fī al-ḥisāb bi-ṭarīq al-jabr wa-al-maqābalah. Short treatise on algebra named after Qawām al-Dīn, possibly Khuwārizmī?
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes. With diagrams. Title page has a recipe for a medical treatment for vitiligo; the recipe is written twice.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page.
- Description: Lacks some iʻjām diacritics ; MS in good condition with some staining, worm damage and repairs.
- Origin: Probably from the 14th century. Both texts written in the same hand.
- Incipit: [كتاب في معرفة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب وفق قال الحسن بن الحارث المحبوبى ... ان اجل العلوم بعد علم التوحيد ... وقد شرحت في هذا الكتاب طرق الحساب في مسائل الوصايا من حساب الجبر والمقابلة والطرق الهندية والعلم بطرق -- [رسالة القوامى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله للاحد المنره عن الكره والعدد احمد على نعم ... وبعد مر الله تعالىخوارزم بقد فقير الصدر العادل قوام الدين ورائد رغبته في علم الحساب ...
- Ending: [كتاب في معرفة] وخمسة وعشرون وذلك ما اردنا ان نبين وهذه صورته -- [رسالة القوامى] والله اعلم
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 84
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/19a5ca24-ac11-44d9-9156-a07fcf779d97/manifest