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Title

Ḍawʼ al-sirāj.
ضوء السراج

Authors

• Faraḍī, Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr, 1246 or 1247-1300
  فرضي، محمود بن ابي بكر،

Call number

LJS 436
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954456963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779856980
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5445696

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 723-747 (1323-1347)

Summary

14th-century copy of a late 13th-century manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance, in the form of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on the Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah of 12th-century legal and mathematical scholar Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

123 leaves : 179 x 127 (134-143 x 88) mm bound to 179 x 139 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 123 leaves; [i, 1-123]; alternating gatherings of 10 and 6 leaves.

Support

Paper

Binding

Morocco with flap (Type II), faded marbled paper overlay on covers.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines.

Decoration

Diagrams (f. 43v-46r, 111r-111v, 114v-117r) and tables (105r-110r, 112r-114r, 118v-120v) in red and black ink; title page text in red and black ink (f. 1r); occasional words and phrases in red ink; double frame of red ink around text block and double red lines between sections on final pages of manuscript (f. 104v-120v).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, mostly unpointed, by at least 2 hands (first hand, f. 1v-56v, 104v-120v; second hand, 57r-104r), with an additional leaf bound in, f. 63.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jun. 2002.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800
• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)
• Mathematics, Arab

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Tables (documents)
• Early works

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 32r — Diagram, f. 32r
• fol. 43v — Diagram, f. 43v
• fol. 44v — Diagram, f. 44v
• fol. 45r — Diagram, f. 45r
• fol. 45v — Diagram, f. 45v
• fol. 46r — Diagram, f. 46r
• fol. 105r — Table, f. 105r
• fol. 106r — Table, f. 106r
• fol. 106v — Table, f. 106v
• fol. 107r — Table, f. 107r
• fol. 107v — Table, f. 107v
• fol. 108r — Table, f. 108r
• fol. 108v — Table, f. 108v
• fol. 109r — Table, f. 109r
• fol. 109v — Table, f. 109v
• fol. 110r — Table, f. 110r
• fol. 111r — Table, f. 111r
• fol. 111v — Diagram, f. 111v
• fol. 112r — Table, f. 112r
• fol. 113r — Table, f. 113r
• fol. 113v — Table, f. 113v
• fol. 114r — Table, f. 114r
• fol. 114v — Diagram, f. 114v
• fol. 115r — Diagram, f. 115r
• fol. 115v — Diagram, f. 115v
• fol. 116r — Diagram, f. 116r
• fol. 116v — Diagram, f. 116v
• fol. 117r — Diagram, f. 117r
• fol. 117v — Diagram, f. 117v
• fol. 118v — Table, f. 118v
• fol. 119r — Table, f. 119r
• fol. 119v — Table, f. 119v
• fol. 120r — Table, f. 120r
• fol. 120v — Table, f. 120v