Ḥaṭṭ al-niqāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb.

Title:

Ḥaṭṭ al-niqāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb.
حط النقاب عن وجوه اعمال الحساب

Creator:

Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn, ǂd -1406 or 1407
Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?

Date:

between 14--? and 16--?

Description:

Commentary on the summary of arithmetical operations by the late 13th- and early 14th-century scholar Ibn al-Bannāʼ. Demonstrates with examples the calculation of sums involving fractional numbers and square roots. Extensive marginal notes on a few leaves (p. 20-35). The first leaf is missing and the text ends abruptly. Several leaves have restored outer margins. Pages 189-194 missing text because of conservation after water damage.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century
Codices
Commentaries
Early works
Arithmetic--Early works to 1800
Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
Arithmetic
Mathematics, Arab

Geographic region:

Morocco?

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, July 2004.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.

Extent:

Written in 24 long lines.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania

Rights:

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Identifier:

Oversize LJS 481

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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