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هذه مقدمة اللمعة في علم الحساب / للشيخ شهاب الدين احمد بن الهائم.
Hādhihi Muqaddimat al-Lumʻah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb / lil-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Hāʼim.
1783
A short treatise on arithmetic.
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- Publisher
- Muḥarram 1198 [November/December 1783]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 159L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A short treatise on arithmetic.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذه مقدمة اللمعة في علم الحساب / للشيخ شهاب الدين احمد بن الهائم.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhihi Muqaddimat al-Lumʻah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb / lil-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Hāʼim.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 159L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9593v716m
- Publisher
- Muḥarram 1198 [November/December 1783]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1783
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 12 leaves : paper ; 236 x 167 (160 x 95) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1035.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 331/2.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5986/7.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- A few marginal notes and glosses.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 12 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Muḥarram 1198 (fol. 12b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة ... اما بعد فهذه لمع يسيرة في علم الحساب ...
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخها يوم الجمعة المبارك من شهر محرم سنة 1198 تم
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 28
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/23f1c066-10f8-4d1d-a8e6-86f3a9014e2c/manifest