Item Summary

A short treatise on arithmetic.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا متن اللمع / للعالم شهاب الدين احمد بن محمد علي بن عماد الشهير بابن الهايم.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā matn al-Lumaʻ / lil-ʻĀlim Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn ʻImād al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Hāyim.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 160L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5d86pc251
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
11 leaves : paper ; 232 x 160 (170 x 110) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1036.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Seven lines of verse by Zamakhsharī on title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 11 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century. Copied by ʻAlī Yūsuf al-Azʹharī al-Shāfiʻī al-Sanāwī[?] (fol. 11b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلاة ... وبعد فهذه لمع يسيره في علم الحساب يضطر الي معرفقها من يريد الشروع في الغرايض ...
Colophon: والله اعلم كتبه الفقير علي يوسف الازهري الشافعى الستاوي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن طالع فيه وللمسلمين اجمعين تم بحمد لله تم تم ه
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arithmetic—Early works to 1900
Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
26

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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