Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ Munyat al-ḥussāb.
بغية الطلاب في شرح منية الحساب

Authors

• Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1437 or 1438-1513
  ابن غازي، محمد بن احمد،
• Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1437 or 1438-1513
  ابن غازي، محمد بن احمد،

Other related names

• ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad, active 1747, scribe
  عبد القادر بن احمد،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 50
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14012147
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107056115
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_050.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14012147

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1747

Place

Morocco?

Summary

Commentary by Ibn Ghāzī on his own mathematical poem; source-text in red with commentary in dark brown.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

I, 164, iii leaves : 202 x 157 (125 x 75) mm, bound to 205 x 170 mm

Foliation

Idiosyncratic foliation in ink, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; references in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brownish-red leather over pasteboard with blind-tooled frame; blind-stamped, blue paper onlay mandorla; flap has coordinating onlay.

Layout

20 long lines; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; some diagrams and tables.

Script

Written in maghribī in dark brown ink.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Acquired by David Eugene Smith on 17 March, 1929 in Marrakesh (note in pencil, first flyleaf recto at front of book: "Marrakech, Mch. 17, 1929. DES.").
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Full covers
• Onlays (decoration)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kitāb bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ munyat al-ḥussāb

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 16r — Table
• fol. 17r — Diagram
• fol. 22r — Table
• fol. 44r — Tables
• fol. 44v — Tables
• fol. 45r — Table
• fol. 53r — Table
• fol. 55v — Table
• fol. 56v — Table
• fol. 57r — Table
• fol. 61r — Table
• fol. 67v — Diagram
• fol. 74r — Tables
• fol. 81v — Diagram
• fol. 105r — Diagram
• fol. 107r — Diagram
• fol. 107v — Diagram
• fol. 108r — Diagram
• fol. 109r — Diagram
• fol. 109v — Diagram
• fol. 110r — Diagram
• fol. 110v — Diagram
• fol. 112r — Diagram
• fol. 113r — Diagram
• fol. 113v — Diagram
• fol. 152r — Diagram
• fol. 153v — Table
• fol. 154r — Table
• fol. 160r — Table
• fol. 162v — Diagram