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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme 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 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
Scope & Content:
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

4. 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
Scope & Content:
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

5. Delhi Arabic 110, ff 28a-r-119v

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Delhi Arabic 110, ff 28a-r-119v
Title:
Dīwān al-‘adad al-wafq ديوان العدد الوفق Anonymous
Scope & Content:
Mathematical treatise on the construction of magic squares and triangles (العدد الوفق). The text is defective at the beginning and end so the author's name is unknown, but in what remains of the preface the author records the title of the work and says that his intention is to compile all that h...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th or 16th century
Extent:

Ff. 28a-r-119v

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Delhi Arabic 1919, f 10v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1919, f 10v
Title:
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a popular textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي, d. 1621). 　 Begins (f. 10v, lines 3-4): نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجمع نعمه عدد ولا ينتهي تضاعف قسمه إلى أمد ونصلي على سيّدنا محمد Ends (f. 10v, line 9): وسمو مكانه ورشاقة...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

F. 10v

10. IO Islamic 824

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 824
Title:
Scientific and Philosophical Compendium of Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي)
Scope & Content:
Compendium of short texts, extracts and notes on scientific and philosophical subjects, compiled by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي; d. 1681), and completed in Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134/September-October 1722 (see note on f. 5r). The manuscript was later owned by the compiler''s ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+250+i