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Title

Īḍāḥ al-maqāṣid li-farāʼid al-fawāʼid.
ايضاح المقاصد لفرائد الفوائد

Authors

• Kāshānī, Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century
  كاشاني، يحيى بن احمد،

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 296
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960048803503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857671133
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6004880

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 720 (1320)

Place

Iṣfahān?, Iran

Summary

Mathematical treatise with frequent marginal notes by multiple hands. Some of the marginal notes are textual variants or corrections, sometimes in red and corresponding to red overlining in the text. Later added table of contents (f. i verso-iii recto). Ribbon or thread tied in the outer margin as a marker (f. 118).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2v).
   

Extent

172 leaves : 247 x 105 (220 x 75) mm bound to 247 x 110 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern) + 170; [i-iv, 1], 2-7, 9-23, 23-63, 63-99, [i], 100-132, 132-137, 137-145, 145-160, 160-162; later foliation in ink, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Morocco spine and cover edges, rebacked; panel of parchment and a single gilt stamp on the upper cover with blind-tooled frame; panel now lacking on lower cover; writing on tail-edge.

Layout

Written in 29-33 long lines.

Decoration

Occasional small diagrams (for example, f. 97r-99r, 103r-109r, 113r-114v, 136v-142r); overlining and some marginal notes in red.

Script

Written in rapid naskh by the author (f. 162r).

Provenance

• Multiple ownership inscriptions (inside upper cover, front flyleaf, f. i recto, 1r); ownership stamps (f. 1r-2r).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's, 19 April 1999, lot 333, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics, Arab

Genres

• Early works
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, 14th century

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Decorations

• fol. 23r — Table, f. 23r
• fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
• fol. 26r — Table, f. 26r
• fol. 27v — Table, f. 27v
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v
• fol. 31r — Diagram, f. 31r
• fol. 34r — Diagram, f. 34r
• fol. 34v — Diagram, f. 34v
• fol. 41r — Table, f. 41r
• fol. 42v — Table, f. 42v
• fol. 43v — Table, f. 43v
• fol. 44v — Table, f. 44v
• fol. 45v — Diagram, f. 45v
• fol. 47r — Table, f. 47r
• fol. 50v — Table, f. 50v
• fol. 53r — Table, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Table, f. 53v
• fol. 55r — Table, f. 55r
• fol. 55v — Table, f. 55v
• fol. 57r — Table, f. 57r
• fol. 57v — Table, f. 57v