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Title

Sharḥ ʻalá Nuzʹhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār.
شرح على نزهة النظار في علم الغبار

Authors

• Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, -1575
  غزي، احمد بن قاسم،
• Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
  ابن الهائم، احمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 294
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13720583
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085517499
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_294.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13720583

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?-18--?

Summary

Commentary on a treatise on arithmetic written by Ibn al-Hāʼim Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r)
   

Extent

50 leaves : 230 x 160 (175 x 110) mm, bound to 235 x 170 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter covers. Pink and black marbled sides over pasteboard with cracked, brown leather spine. Light purple and black marbled pastedowns.

Layout

25 lines per page; frame-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red, including source-text. Tables and calculations.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate on inside back cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts
• Tables (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sharḥ ʻalá Nuzʹhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār.

Decorations

• fol. 8r — Tables
• fol. 9v — Tables
• fol. 14v — Calculations
• fol. 15r — Table
• fol. 15v — Table
• fol. 16r — Table
• fol. 22r — Table
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"