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Title

al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī ṣanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār.
البيان و التذكار في صنعة عمل الغبار

Authors

• Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, active 12th century
  ابو بكر الحصار،

Other related names

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274, former owner
  طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،
• Sāʻātī, ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab, former owner
  ساعاتي، علي بن ثعلب،
• Baghdādī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujill, scribe
  بغدادي، محمد بن عبد الله بن المجل،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 293
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948193403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779966851
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4819340

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 590 (1194)

Place

Baghdād

Summary

On calculation with integers and fractions; a copy of a work composed in the Maghrib; some marginal notations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page and introduction (f. 1r, 1v).
   

Extent

86 leaves : 232 x 165 (164 x 114) mm. bound to 234 x 175 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 86 + i; 1⁸ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁶. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Early calf over paper boards, blind-stamped with central four-lobed medallion and rolled double frame with text in the outer frame.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (owner's statement, f.1r).
   
• Formerly owned by ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab (Taghlib) al-Sāʻātī al-Baghdādī, (owner's statement, f. 1r).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 Apr. 1999, lot 320, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Algebra--Early works to 1800
• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Algebra
• Arithmetic
• Mathematics, Arab

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--12th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Treatises
• Early works

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