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Or 7988
- Record Id:
- 032-003780529
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003780529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115272548.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 7988
- Title:
- Umdetü'l-hesap - عمدة الحساب
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains an arithmetical treatise by Matrakçı Nasuh, also known as Nasuh el-Silahi el-Matraki, Nasuh İbn-i Abdullah, and Nasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdulla el-Visokavi el-Bosnavi (died 1564 CE, although his date of death is given as 940 AH/1533-34 CE by OM and 943 AH/1536-37 CE by Karatay).
Matrakçı Nasuh was a Bosniak polymath who is known as a superlative player of the sport matrak, as well as a geographer, historian, teacher, swordsman, navigator, painter and inventor. In addition to the current work, he penned two other treatises on mathematics, Cemalü'l-küttab and Kemalü'l-hesap.
This work, which contains many diagrams, is divided into two kısım, the first being subdivided into 24 fusul. Most of the arithmetical problems have a practical application to the laws of inheritance.
On several folios, space has been left for diagrams which were, apparently, never copied.
The current manuscript was copied in 950 AH (1543-44 CE).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003780529
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003780529
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 110 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1543
- End Date:
- 1544
- Date Range:
- 950
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials : Paper, some of which are buff-tinted
Foliation : European, 110 pages
Dimensions : 186 mm x 146 mm
Script : Nesih
- Information About Copies:
- Another copy is noted in Karatay I, no. 1577.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800
- Places:
- Bosnia, Europe
Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe - Related Material:
- For further information on the author, see OM III, p. 305; the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Turkey (https://www.ktb.gov.tr/EN-117628/nasuh-matrakci.html); and Muslim Heritage (https://muslimheritage.com/nasuh-al-matraki-a-noteworthy-ottoman-artist-mathematician-of-the-sixteenth-century/).
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Or 14361