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Delhi Arabic 1902, ff 1r-47v
- Record Id:
- 040-003376890
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003376889
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100044363898.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100070047470.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1902, ff 1r-47v
- Title:
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al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-uṣūl al-ḥisābīyah الرسالة الشمسية في الأصول الحسابية
Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 1329).
The treatise is divided into 2 books (فنان), each subdivided into chapters (أبواب), and sections (فصول):
- Book One: What Pertains to the Elements of Arithmetic (الفن الأول فيما يتعلق بأصول الحساب, ff. 2v-15v);
- Book Two: What Pertains to the Four Branches of Arithmetic (الفن الثاني فيما يتعلق بفروع الحساب الأربعة, ff. 15v-47v).
The text contains numerous diagrams.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الفرد بلا ند المنزه عن الزوج والضد لا مركب فينحل ولا أول له فيعلل
المنطق بوجود وجوده فأيز بالسعادة العظمى والذاهل عن بينات أياته
أصم وأعمي ...
Ends (f. 47v, lines 1-3):
... وهذه قوانين إذا اتقنت
حفظها ملكت زمام استخراج مطالب شريفة في فن الحساب
وهو الموفق للصواب تم الكتاب
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003376889
040-003376890 - Is part of:
- Delhi Arabic 1902 : Composite volume of treatises on mathematics
Delhi Arabic 1902, ff 1r-47v : al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-uṣūl al-ḥisābīyah الرسالة الشمسية في الأصول… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003376889[0001]/040-003376890
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Delhi Arabic 1902
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 1r-47v
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Studies:
- Morrison, Robert G., Islam and science: the intellectual career of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (London: Routledge, 2010)
- Morrison, Robert G., 'Nīsābūrī: al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 837
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d 1328 or 1329