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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb كتاب شرح اللمع في الحساب / Sharḥ al-Sibṭ ʻalá al-Lumaʻ li-Ibn al-Hāʼim

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Title

  • Kitāb Sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb

Other Title

  • كتاب شرح اللمع في الحساب
  • Sharḥ al-Sibṭ ʻalá al-Lumaʻ li-Ibn al-Hāʼim

Summary

  • Sibṭ al-Māridīnī's commenary in Ibn al-Hāʼim's Lumaʻ on arithmetic.

Names

  • Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [early 17th century?]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Lumaʻ al-yasīrah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
  • -  Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
  • -  Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not identified.
  • -  Paper; yellowed medium cream color laid paper with faint horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 154
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 14 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-15a.
  • -  "H-1139 = 5.707."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-707.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  ‏Incipit: الحمد لله حمدا يليق بجلاله والصلاة والسلام على محمد وصحبه وآله ... هذا تعليق مختصر جعلته توضيحا على المقدمة المسماة باللمع فى علم الحساب تأليف الشيخ الإمام العالم العلامة جامع أشتات الفضايل ومحي علوم الأوائل شهاب الدين أحمد بن الهايم
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: ... بالبراعة وبالله التوفيق وبالله المستعان والحمد لله.

Medium

  • 15 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 15 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA101 .I2437 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498261

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb. [Early 17th Century?, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017498261/.

APA citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, B. A. M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1600) Kitāb Sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb. [Early 17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017498261/.

MLA citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb. [Early 17th Century?, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2017498261/>.