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1. Add MS 7469

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Add MS 7469
Title:
Ḥāwī al-lubāb wa-sharḥ talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb حاوي اللباب وشرح تلخيص أعمال الحساب Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybūghā al-Majdī al-Shāfi‘ī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن رجب بن طيبوغا المجدي الشافعي, d 1447) of the Talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb (تلخيص أعمال الحساب, Epitome of the Operations of Arithmetic) by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrā...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabī‘ II 840
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+206+i

2. Add MS 7470

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Title:
Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
Compendium of mathematics by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (الكاشاني, see f. 3v, line 3). The text is known by both the short title Key to Calculation (مفتاح الحساب, see ff. 2r, line 8 and 3v, line...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Shawwāl 997
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+110+iii

3. Add MS 7473, ff 164v-172v

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Add MS 7473, ff 164v-172v
Title:
Min kitāb Abūlūnīyūs fī al-ashkāl al-sanaubarīyah من كتاب أبولونيوس في الأشكال الصنوبرية Apollonius of Perga أبولونيوس
Scope & Content:
The title states that this text is an excerpt from an Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; في الأشكال الصنوبية) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبولونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The colophon, however, gives the title of the work as the Book of Burning-Mirrors and Compendium of Conics (كتاب المرايا ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639
Extent:

Ff. 164v-172v

4. Add MS 9639

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Title:
Two treatises on inheritance shares (farāʾiḍ) and mathematics
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) al-Maghīlī (المغيلي), [Sharḥ ʿalá urjūzah fī al-farāʾiḍ lil-Burrī] ([شرح على أرجوزة في الفرائض للبري]; ff. 1r-114r); (2) al-Qalaṣādī (القلصادي), Kashf al-astār ʿan ʿilm ḥurūf al-ghubār (كشف الأستار عن علم حروف الغبار; ff. 114r-120v).　 The two texts are followed by a page of pray...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Rajab 1064
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+120+ii

5. Add MS 15480

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Title:
Two mathematical treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī الجرجاني)), al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah (الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية; ff. 2v-88v); (2) al-Zamzamī (الزمزمي), al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār (المرشدة في صناعة الغبار; ff. 89v-116v).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1148-1177
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+117+v

6. 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

7. Add MS 23570

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Title:
Mathematical compendium
Scope & Content:
Compendium containing treatises on astronomy, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and shorter extracts and notes on related topics. The title page (f. 7r), which is written by a later hand than that of the main scribe, calls the volume 'a compendium of seven treatises accompanied by various studies (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1014-1018
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+136+iv

8. Delhi Arabic 1896

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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

9. Delhi Arabic 1897

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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

10. Delhi Arabic 1898

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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