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Delhi Arabic 1897
- Record Id:
- 032-003372160
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- 032-003372160
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100042392200.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100083372864.0x000002
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- Delhi Arabic 1897
- Title:
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Two treatises on algebra and inheritance calculations and an excerpt on magic squares
Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
- Scope & Content:
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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, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen, appendix, no. 3) and related to algebra and inheritance calculations.
Contents:
- (1) al-Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (الخزاعي، محمد بن أحمد), Sharḥ al-mukhtaṣar fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (شرح المختصر في الجبر والمقابلة; ff. 1r-124v);
- (2) al-Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (الخزاعي، محمد بن أحمد), Kitāb al-inshā’ fī ‘ilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (كتاب الإنشاء في علم الجبر والمقابلة; ff. 125v-130v);
- (3) al-Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (الخزاعي، محمد بن أحمد), Excerpt on magic squares (ff. 130v-132v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Delhi Arabic 1897, ff 1r-124v : Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah…
Delhi Arabic 1897, ff 125v-130v : Kitāb al-inshā’ fī ‘ilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah كتاب الإنشاء في علم الجبر…
Delhi Arabic 1897, ff 130v-132v : Excerpt on magic squares (عدد الوفق)Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iii+133+i
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1627
- End Date:
- 1627
- Date Range:
- 1036
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Material: Western laid paper
Dimensions: 302 x 200 mm leaf [200 x 115 mm written]
Foliation: India Office Library foliation stamped in black ink
Ruling: Misṭarah; 35 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and diagrams and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: Purple cloth India Office binding
Condition: Extensive insect damage especially towards ends of volume, but little damage to text block; f. 1 mutilated, but with minimal loss of text; ff. 1-6 severly trimmed; ff. 131 and 132 are guarded
Marginalia: Numerous by many hands
Seals: front flyleaf iii and ff. 2r and 132v
- Custodial History:
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- The Government of India: its seal with central legend 'Delhi MSS' (front flyleaf iii and ff. 2r and 132v);
- Muḥammad Afḍal (محمد أفضل): his inscription, without date, with erased seal (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
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Studies:
- King, David A., Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen (Malibu: Undena Press 1982), appendix A, no. 3, pp. 54-5
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), pp. 211, no. 604
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)