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Title

Ḥaṭṭ al-niqāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb.
[حط النقاب عن وجوه اعمال الحساب]

Authors

• Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn, ǂd -1406 or 1407
  ابن القنفذ، أحمد بن حسين، ǂd -1406 or 1407
• Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?
  ابن البناء، احمد بن محمد،

Call number

Oversize LJS 481
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959542723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/844036954
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5954272

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 14--? and 16--?

Place

Morocco?

Summary

Commentary on the summary of arithmetical operations by the late 13th- and early 14th-century scholar Ibn al-Bannāʼ. Demonstrates with examples the calculation of sums involving fractional numbers and square roots. Extensive marginal notes on a few leaves (p. 20-35). The first leaf is missing and the text ends abruptly. Several leaves have restored outer margins. Pages 189-194 missing text because of conservation after water damage.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Laid European paper with grape watermark.

Extent

159 leaves : 268 x 195 (205 x 135) mm bound to 274 x 208 mm

Foliation

159 leaves; [1-55, i-ii, 56-151, i-ii, 152-165, 164-273, 174-179, 280-312], later pagination in blue ink, upper center. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso, many obscured by past water damage.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later red leather, blind-stamped with central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and frame; rebacked. Marbled doublure.

Layout

Written in 24 long lines.

Script

Written in maghribi script in brown ink; pointed. Headings in larger script.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, July 2004.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century
• Codices
• Commentaries
• Early works

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