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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language Arabic Subject Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900

1. Add MS 7473, ff 122r-164r

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Add MS 7473, ff 122r-164r
Title:
al-Madkhal ilá ‘ilm al-‘adad المدخل إلى علم العدد Nicomachus of Gerasa نيقوماخس الجراسيني
Scope & Content:
Arabic translation of the Introductio Arithmetica (Ἀριθμητικὴ εἰσαγωγή, المدخل إلى علم العدد المسمى بالأرثماطيقي) by the neo-Pythagorean philosopher and mathematician Nicomachus of Gerasa (Νικόμαχος ὁ Γερασινός, نيقوماخس الجراسيني; d. ca 120). The translation is attributed to Thābit ibn Qurrah (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 122r-164r

2. Add MS 7473, ff 179r-188r

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Add MS 7473, ff 179r-188r
Title:
Maqālah fī al-ḍarb wa-l-qismah bil-hindī min ghayr maḥw wa-la naql مقالة في الضرب والقسمة بالهندي من غير محو ولا نقل Abū al-Majd ibn ‘Aṭīyah ibn Abī al-Majd al-Kātib أبو المجد بن عطية بن أبي المجد الكاتب
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic and the multiplication and division using Arabic (hindī) numerals. The full title given in the text is (f. 179r, lines 2-5): مقال ألفه الشيخ الفاضل أبو المجد بن عطية بن أبي المجد الكاتب في الضرب والقسمة بالهندي من غير محو ولا نقل اخترعًا منه Begins (f. 179r, lines 6-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 179r-188r

3. Add MS 7890

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Add MS 7890
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following six texts in Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Arabic : (I) ff 1v-36r : A model letter collection for the use of military officers. It contains models of letters by Zağarcıbaşılar, Çorbacıbaşılar, Turnacıbaşıları, and others to the Kâya Bey, or the Ağa of Janissa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
6 texts, 139 ff

4. Add MS 23569, ff 103v-135v

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Add MS 23569, ff 103v-135v
Title:
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Very popular textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The treatise contains numerous diagrams and tables (ff. 104v, 105r, 105v, 106r, 109r, 109v, 110v, 112r, 118v, 119r, 122r, 122v and 124v). The text is defective at the en...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1646-1647
Extent:

Ff. 103v-135v

5. Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v

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Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v
Title:
(Fā’idah) min Sharḥ Shamsīyat al-ḥisāb من شرح شمسية الحساب (فائدة) Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله
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Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb (الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 2v-3v