Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 464: Taḥṣīl al-munā fī sharḥ Talkhīṣ Ibn al-Bannāʼ. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 464: Taḥṣīl al-munā fī sharḥ Talkhīṣ Ibn al-Bannāʼ. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title from colophon (f. 96r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 464 9948304643503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1002883391 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4830464 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. Arabic Taḥṣīl al-munā fī sharḥ Talkhīṣ Ibn al-Bannāʼ. تحصيل المنا في شرح تلخيص ابن البناء 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، scribe Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ḥusn ابراهيم ابن الحسن، former owner Schoenberg, Lawrence J

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 96 leaves : 210 x 140 (177 x 115) mm. bound to 212 x 155 mm Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto. Written in 24 lines. Written in maghribi script in brown ink, pointed. Rubrications in red including citations and numbers; colophon in red ink. Table, f. 49v

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

Written in Granada, completed 11 Sha'ban A.H. 849 (November 1445) by Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ḥusn (f. 96r).

A.H. 849 (1445) Granada 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. Algebra--Early works to 1800 Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800 Algebra Mathematics, Arab Codices Commentaries Tables (documents) Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century Manuscripts, Medieval Manuscripts, Renaissance Early works