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Title

Hādhihi risālah fī al-ḥisāb ...
هذه رسالة في الحساب

Authors

• Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
  ابن الهائم، احمد بن محمد،
• Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?
  ابن البناء، احمد بن محمد،
• Dimashqī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad
  دمشقي، عبد اللطيف بن احمد
• Ashʻarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 11th century-12th century
  اشعري، احمد بن محمد،

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 305
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13720586
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085517668
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_305.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13720586

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1719-1720

Place

Turkey

Summary

Three treatises in different hands, bound together. The first is an abridgement of Ibn al-Bannāʼ's Talkhīṣ by Ibn al-Hāʼim. The second is a short work on astrolabe terminology and use. The third appears to be an autograph of Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimashqī.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title of set from caption title to first work (f. 1v). Title of first and second work from introductions (f. 1v, 10v). Title of third work from added title (f. 20r).
   

Extent

40 leaves : 205 x 130 (135 x 55) mm, bound to 205 x 135 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Marbled paper cover over pasteboard with red spine and fore-edge.

Layout

19-23 long lines with generous margins for notes; extensive marginalia in first work. Catchwords in third work each verso, lower left.

Decoration

Rubrications in red, including source-text. Diagrams and calculations in the margins, several tables. Floral decoration on title page of third work (f. 20r).

Script

Naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astrolabes--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
• Geodesy--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts
• Tables (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Hādhihi risālah fī al-ḥisāb …
• fol. 1v — Mukhtaṣar ḥāwin li-mā bi-Talkhīṣ Ibn al-Bannāʼ / Ibn al-Hāʼim
• fol. 10v — Risālah mukhtaṣarah adhkuru fī-hā asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-ālah al-musammāh bi-al-asṭurlāb al-shamālī dhāt ṣafāʼiḥ wa-baʻḍ aʻmālihā.
• fol. 20v — Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah.

Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"
• fol. 2r — Table
• fol. 2r — Table
• fol. 2v — Table
• fol. 3r — Table
• fol. 3v — Table
• fol. 3v — Table
• fol. 4r — Table
• fol. 4r — Table
• fol. 6r — Table
• fol. 6v — Table
• fol. 6v — Table
• fol. 7r — Table
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagrams
• fol. 8v — Diagrams
• fol. 17v — Diagram
• fol. 20r — Polychrome floral decoration
• fol. 20r — Owner's notation
• fol. 22r — Diagrams
• fol. 22v — Diagrams
• fol. 23r — Diagrams
• fol. 23v — Diagrams
• fol. 24r — Diagrams