Item Summary

Autograph copy of a compendium of algebra compiled from the works of Aḥmad ibn al-Hāʼim and ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Sāmūlī.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا المختصر اللطيف الجامع لاكثر التصانيف.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā al-mukhtaṣar al-laṭīf al-jāmiʻ li-akthar al-taṣānīf.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 533H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpc289v625
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1677
Extent
45 leaves : paper, illustrations. ; 214 x 155 (175-180 x 105) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1051.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. With tables and formulas. Fawāʼid on fol. 44b-45b including some calculations, additional notes and a calendar/chart covering the end of 1159 and beginning of 1160
Collation: Paper fol. 45 ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals as fol. 51-95 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27-33 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition, folios frayed at the edges and many are loose.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 15 Rajab 1088 by the author (fol. 44a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده ... وبعد فيقول الراجي عفو ربه الباري حسين بن شامي الهتاري المدني الشافعي الفرضي هذا تعليق لطيف ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من جمعه يوم الثلاثاء خامس عشر رجب الفرد سنة 1088 وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
94

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e6b80306-e167-48fc-8db2-d07fd4d22a00/manifest