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Title

Kitāb al-qawl al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ.
كتاب القول المبدع في شرح المقنع

Authors

• Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
  سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد،
• Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
  ابن الهائم، احمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 147
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13718690
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085013831
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_147.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13718690

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1472

Summary

Commentary on Al-Muqniʻ, a poem on algebra by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Hāʼim.

Notes

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

Extent

24 leaves : 180 x 135 (130 x 100) mm, bound to 180 x 140 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Full covers of marbled paper over pasteboard with flap. Embossed leather medallion onlays on both covers, though mostly removed from front cover. Plain brown paper doublure.

Layout

21 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Full covers
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Onlays (decoration)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kitāb al-qawl al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ.