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Title

Taḥṣīl al-munā fī sharḥ Talkhīṣ Ibn al-Bannāʼ.
تحصيل المنا في شرح تلخيص ابن البناء

Authors

• Mawāhidī, Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Yaʻqūb ibn Ayyūb, fl. 1350-1389
  مواهدي، ابو عبد الرحمن يعقوب بن ايوب
• Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?
  ابن البناء، احمد بن محمد،
• Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?
  ابن البناء، احمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ḥusn, scribe
  ابراهيم ابن الحسن،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 464
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948304643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1002883391
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4830464

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 849 (1445)

Place

Granada

Summary

Commentary on the Talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb, a treatise on mathematical operations by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Bannāʼ, with particular focus on calculations involving fractions and square roots. According to the notes of Mahdi Abdeljaouad and Jeffrey Oaks, the manuscript includes excerpts from 3 other treatises: Rafʻ al-ḥijāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb (his own commentary on the Talkhīṣ); Maqālāt fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb; and Kitāb al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (a treatise on algebra). 5 computational tables (f. 27r, 34v, 35r, 46v, 49v). Includes corrections of text and calculations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 96r).
   

Extent

96 leaves : 210 x 140 (177 x 115) mm. bound to 212 x 155 mm

Foliation

Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later red leather with flap (Type II), tooled central mandorla and double frame. Spines repaired.

Layout

Written in 24 lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red including citations and numbers; colophon in red ink.

Script

Written in maghribi script in brown ink, pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2004.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Early works

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Decorations

• fol. 49v — Table, f. 49v