Item Summary

Incomplete copy of a commentary on Ghunyat al-ḥussāb by Aḥmad ibn Thabāt al-Humāmī, completed in Jumadá al-Ākhirah 955. Contains figures and diagrams.

Descriptive Information

Title
مخايل الملاحة في مسائل المساحة / للعلامة رضي الدين محمد ابن الحنبلي
Transliterated Title
Makhāyil al-malāḥah fī masāʼil al-misāḥah / lil-ʻallāmah Raḍī al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥanbalī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 484Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcf4752x646
Publisher
[Syria?], Ramaḍān 961 [1554]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1554
Format
Manuscript
Extent
97 leaves: paper, illustrations ; 181 x 136 (110 x 80) mm bound to 18 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Three ownership statements and one seal dated 1265 H. [1848 or 9] on fol. 1a, in the name of Aḥmad Āghā Ibn al-Ḥājj Aḥmad Āghā Sayyid(?, the rest torn off), with indication of a price ; al-Ḥājj Bakrī Ibn Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ibn al-...(?) ; Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Jamālī(?, obliterated). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4857
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 860/9e
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from note by a later hand on fol. 1a. The same title with no statement of responsibility appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 2a, last line).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Sh ...? 186" (repeated in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover). Two spine labels (vertical), one with the inscription in Roman script: "AUT S [next line] 57" (same label on the pastedown of the upper cover, repeated in red pencil on the pastedown itself), the other with the title in Arabic script, reading: "al-Misāḥah".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 97 (fol. 1 is later paper) ; catchwords ; 2nd quire signed ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition, Fol. 1 is a later addition, with upper corner torn off, with mention of the title and ownership statements. The first folio of the text is wanting. According to the catchword on fol. 9b, one fol. missing between fol. 9 and 10.
Origin: Copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān in Ramaḍān 961 (colophon, fol. 96a). The copyist adds in a note that he heard this text read by somebody else in front on the author, Shaykhunā al-ʻallāmah Radī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanbalī, who gave him an ijāzah, in Dhū al-Qaʻdah of the same year.
Beginning as extant: على الكفاية تعلّمها المثاب ان شاء الله تعالي معلّمها ومتعلّمها الي ان لاحت الملاحة في وجه كتاب المساحة من كتاب غنية الحسّاب في علم الحساب تاليف عمدة الاثبات جمال الدين احمد بن ثَبات ذي العوارف الهمامية المعروف بقاضي الهُمامية ... [2ب] ... قال المصنّف رحمه الله تعالى كتاب المساحة بكسر الميم قيل هي استعلام امثال الواحد المفوض الخطي
Explicit: وان شيت بالنسبة فما خرج فهو الجواب والله اعلم بالصواب وصلى الله علي محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما قال شيخنا العلامم نفع الله به شارح هذه ... الميمونة وكان الفراغ من وضع هذا الشرح [96أ] في جمادي الآخره من شهور سنة خمس وخمسين وتسع ماية انتهي
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Humāmī, Aḥmad ibn Thābit -1233 or 1234—Ghunyat al-ḥussāb fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
198

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b553cd7b-3ab8-4397-97b9-00fae344dc33/manifest