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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Algebra -- Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 9639, ff 114r-120v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 9639, ff 114r-120v
Title:
Kashf al-astār ʿan ʿilm ḥurūf al-ghubār كشف الأستار عن علم حروف الغبار Qalaṣādī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad قلصادي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Opening of a treatise on making arithmetical calculations by means of a dust board (takht) and the so-called 'dust numbers' (ḥurūf al-ghubār, see f. 114r, line 14). The text is a précis of the author's own Kashf maʿānī al-jilbāb ʿan ʿilm al-ḥisāb, (اقتطفتها من كتابي المسمي بكشف معاني الجلباب عن ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1654
Extent:

Ff. 114r-120v

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. IO Islamic 461, ff 35v-180r

Reference (shelfmark):
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

4. IO Islamic 1270, ff 48r-56r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1270, ff 48r-56r
Title:
Maqālah fī al-jabr مقالة في الجبر Omar Khayyam عمر الخيامي
Scope & Content:
Treatise on algebra by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ‘Umar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyāmī al-Nīshābūrī (غياث الدين أبو الفتح عمر بن إبراهيم الخيامي النيشابوري; 1048-c 1123) usually called the Risāla fī al-barāhīn ʿalā masāʾil al-jabr wa-al-muqābala (رسالة في البراهين على مسائل الجبر والمقابلة). The text ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 48r-56r

5. IO Islamic 1490

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1490
Title:
Sharḥ ‘alá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ‘ilm al-jabr شرح على الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
21 Muḥarram 1081
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+34+iv

6. Or 5408, ff 94r-115r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5408, ff 94r-115r
Title:
Sharḥ al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʿilm al-jabr شرح الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
mid-Jumādá I 1070
Extent:

Ff. 94r-115r

7. Or 11313, ff 23r-43v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 23r-43v
Title:
al-Risālah al-ʻAlāʼīyah fī al-masāʼil al-ḥisābīyah الرسالة العلائية في المسائل الحسابية Turkistānī, Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad تركستاني، سعيد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic and geometry composed in 711/1312 by Jamāl al-Dīn Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣaddiq al-Sughdī al-Turkistānī (جمال الدين سعيد بن محمد بن مصدق السغدي التركستاني) for his patron ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Faryūmalī (? علاء الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمود الفري...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 748
Extent:
Ff. 23r-43v