al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī ṣinʻat ʻamal al-ghubār; البيان و التذكار في صنعة عمل الغبار

Alternate Title:

Bayān wa al-tadhkār fī ṣanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār; Juzʼ al-awwal min al-bayān.

Contributor:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 (former owner); Sāʻātī, ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab (former owner); Baghdādī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujill (scribe); Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Name:

Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, active 12th century

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900

Date:

1194

Description:

On calculation with integers and fractions; a copy of a work composed in the Maghrib; some marginal notations.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (owner's statement, f.1r).; Formerly owned by ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab (Taghlib) al-Sāʻātī al-Baghdādī, (owner's statement, f. 1r).; Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 Apr. 1999, lot 320, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs293.html; Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000241

Subject:

Algebra -- Early works to 1800; Algebra; Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900; Arithmetic; Mathematics, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics, Arab

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Medieval; Codices (bound manuscripts); Treatises; Early works

Physical Description:

86 leaves : wove paper; 232 x 165 (164 x 114) mm bound to 234 x 175 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page and introduction (f. 1r, 1v).; Collation: Paper, i + 86 + i; 1⁸ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁶. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.; Layout: Written in 15 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.; Binding: Early calf over paper boards, blind-stamped with central four-lobed medallion and rolled double frame with text in the outer frame.; Origin: Copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujill al-Baghdādī at al-Madrasah al-Niẓāmīyah in Baghdad, completed A.H. Safar 590 (Jan.-Feb. 1194, f. 86r).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 293

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)