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1. Delhi Arabic 1896

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1896
Title:
Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd كاظمي، جواد بن سعد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 [see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol. 4, p. 271]) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by his teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text co...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+169+ii

2. Delhi Arabic 1897

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1897
Title:
Two treatises on algebra and inheritance calculations and an excerpt on magic squares Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Collection of treatises and excerpts mostly by the Yemeni mathematician Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Khuzāʾī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي, fl. 13th century, see King, 'A Medieval Arabic Report on Algebra Before al-Khwārizmī' and idem, Mathem...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1036
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+133+i

3. Delhi Arabic 1898

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1898
Title:
Sharḥ al-Mūjaz al-musammá ḥisāban yasīran شرح الموجز المسمى حسابًا يسيرًا
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on a treatise on arithmetic titled The Summary Called Easy Arithmetic (الموجز المسمى حسابًا يسيرًا), by al-Hadīyah Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Ḥusaynī al-Hargāmī (الهدية أحمد بن مسعود الحسيني الهرگامي, d. 1175/1761-2). The text of the commentary (or perhaps of the text commented upo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+201+ii

4. Delhi Arabic 1901

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1901
Title:
al-Durr al-thamīn fī sharḥ urjūzat Ibn al-Yāsamīn الدر الثمين في شرح أرجوزة ابن الياسمين Ibn al-Hāʾim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ha’im al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن الهائم المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), known as Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم) on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
5 Sha‘bān 887
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+105+i

5. Delhi Arabic 1902

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1902
Title:
Composite volume of treatises on mathematics
Scope & Content:
Composite volume comprising four codicological units: ff. 1-20, 21-53, 54-69, and 70-79. The manuscript contains many inclusions, notes on small slips of paper, now bound into the volume. Contents: (1) al-Nīsābūrī (النيسابوري), al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-uṣūl al-ḥisābīyah (الرسالة الشمس...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+79+ii

6. IO Islamic 461, ff 35v-180r

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IO Islamic 461, ff 35v-180r
Title:
al-Muʿādalāt المعادلات
Scope & Content:
Anonymous epitome (تلخيص) of a lost treatise by Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (شرف الدين المظفر بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1213) on cubic equations fundamental to algebraic geometry (see the epitomiser's preface, f. 35, lines 2-7, transcribed below and edited by Rashed in Sharaf al-Dīn...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1198
Extent:

Ff. 35v-180r

7. IO Islamic 461, ff 182v-189r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 461, ff 182v-189r
Title:
Risālah fī ʿamal ḍilʿ al-musabba‘ al-mutasāwī al-aḍlā‘ fī al-dā‘irah رسالة في عمل ضلع المسبع المتساوي الأضلاع في الدائرة Kūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustum كوهي، ويجن بن رستم
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the construction of an equilateral heptagon within a circle by Abū Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Kūhī (أبو سهل ويجن بن رستم الكوهي also spelled al-Qūhī [القوهي]; fl. second half of the 10th century). The text contains seven diagrams, which are collected on a fold out (f. 188r) at the en...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1198
Extent:

Ff. 182v-189r

8. IO Islamic 461, ff 189v-191r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 461, ff 189v-191r
Title:
Ṭarīq fī istikhrāj khaṭṭayn bayna khaṭṭayn wa-tatawālá ‘alá nisbah طريق في استخراج خطّين بين خطّين وتتوالى على نسبة Kūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustum كوهي، ويجن بن رستم
Scope & Content:
Short geometrical treatise by Abū Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Kūhī (أبو سهل ويجن بن رستم الكوهي also spelled al-Qūhī [القوهي]; fl. second half of the 10th century). The text contains one diagram, which is presented on a fold out (f. 190r). Contents: Begins (f. 189v, lines 2-): نجعل الخطين ا ب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1198
Extent:

Ff. 189v-191r

9. IO Islamic 461, ff 191v-197r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 461, ff 191v-197r
Title:
Kitāb fī misāḥat qaṭʿ al-makhrūṭ al-mukāfī كتاب في مساحة قطع المخروط المكافي Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm ابن سنان، إبراهيم
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Treatise on the mensuration of conic sections by Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah (إبراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرّة, d. 946). The text contains seven diagrams, which are collected on a fold out (f. 197r) at the end of the text. Begins (f. 191v, lines 2-3): قد كنت علمت كتابًا في مساحة هذ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1198
Extent:

Ff. 191v-197r

10. IO Islamic 461, ff 198v-207r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 461, ff 198v-207r
Title:
Kitāb fī al-qarasṭūn كتاب في القرسطون Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī ثابت بن قرّة الحراني
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the static and mechanic theories underpinning the use of a kind of balance by Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī (أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرّة الحرّاني; d. 901). The treatise begins with postulates taken from the Kitāb fī al-thiqal wa-al-khiffah wa-qiyās al-ajrām ba‘ḍihā ilá ba‘ḍ (ك...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1198
Extent:

Ff. 198v-207r