Ḥāwī al-lubāb wa-sharḥ talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb حاوي اللباب وشرح تلخيص أعمال الحساب Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب

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Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybūghā al-Majdī al-Shāfi‘ī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن رجب بن طيبوغا المجدي الشافعي, d 1447) of the Talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb (تلخيص أعمال الحساب, Epitome of the Operations of Arithmetic ) by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’ (ابن البناء, see fol. 1v, line 16). The title of the commentary is found in the author's preface (f. 1v, line 25).

The copy was completed on Monday 17 Rabī‘ II 840/29 October 1436 by Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-‘Irāqī (أبو البركات محمد بن محمد بن محمد العراقي); it was copied from a manuscript in Ibn al-Majdī's hand, which was completed on Thursday 6 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 834/August 16 1431 (see author's and scribe's colophons, f. 203v, lines 10-11 and 16-18, transcribed below). Abū al-Barakāt al-‘Irāqī was apparently Ibn al-Majdī's student, since he refers to Ibn al-Majdī as 'my master' (سيدي, scribe's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 203v, line 14, transcribed below). Abū al-Barakāt al-‘Irāqī states that he copied the text for his own use (see scribe's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 203v, line 17, transcribed below). The manuscript was made an endowment (وقف) as noted at the head of many pages.

Ibn al-Bannā’'s Talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb is divided into two parts (جزؤان) each subdivided into sections (أقسام, 3 and 2 respectively) and chapters (أبواب). The commentary on Part Two (الجزء الثاني) begins on f. 104v.

Folio 48a is a fragment of a letter dated 18 J[umādá II ?] [12]20/13 September (?) 1805 that has been bound into the volume.

Between folios 152 and 153 is a slip of paper containing a fragment of a note apparently on the calculation of inheritance shares (علم الفرائض).

Folios 181-82 are a later bifolium of Western laid paper bound into the volume. They contain a short commentary concerning the calculation of inheritance shares (علم الفرائض) signed by the author, Muḥammad ibn al-Marḥūm al-Shaykh Yūsuf al-Faraḍī (محمد ابن المرحوم الشيخ يوسف الفرضي), and dated Tuesday 27 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1157/29 December (?) 1744 (f. 102r, lines 15-16).

After the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (ff. 204r-206v) are various notes on mathematical subjects. Folio 204r-204v contains a long note 'on the determination of repetitions of the multiplication by means of two errors' (في كيفية استخراج تكرار الضرب بالخطائين). Folio 206r contains an short addendum (ذيل and زيادة) to a work on chess by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá al-Ṣūlī (أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى الصولي, d. 947). The addendum is said to be copied by the hand of its anonymous author and is followed by a brief biographical sketch of al-Ṣūlī copied by the same hand.

Begins (f. 1, lines 2-4):

يقول الفقير إلى رحمة ربه المعترف بتقصيره وذنبه راجي عفو المعيد المبدئ (؟) أحمد

الشافعي ابن المجدي الحمد لله الذي جمع العلماء في منازل السيارة وضرب لهم

عند قسمة الفضل بسهم السعادة ورفع عن قلوبهم الحجاب ...

Ends (f. 203v, lines 7-9):

... وقد جعلت جميع مسائل

هذا الفصل مفرعة من أصل واحد لبينته (؟) بذلك على أن كل مسئلة يقدم ذكرها تتفرع

إلى ما لا يهاية له وليكن ذلك آخر ما أوردناه في هذا التعليق المبارك والله أعلم

Author's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 203v, lines 10-13):

وكان الفراغ منه في بكرة نهار الأربعاء المبارك سادس من ذي الحجة الحرام

سنة أربع وثلاثين وثمانمائة على يد الفقير إلى الله تعالى كاتبه ومؤلفه أحمد ابن المجدي

الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين آمين آمين وصلى الله على

أشرف خلقة محمد وآله وسلم

Scribe's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 203v, lines 14-19):

هذه آخر ما وجدته في نسخة سيدي التي بخطه أبقاه الله تعالى التي نقلت

منها هذه النسخة وكان الفراغ من كتابة هذه النسخة النسخة مسود

نهار الأثنين سابع عشر شهر ربيع الآخر سنة أربعين وثمانمائة

وكتبها لنفسه ولمن يسالته (؟) بعده العبد الفقير إلى رحمة ربه الغني الباقي

أبو البركات محمد بن محمد بن محمد العراقي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمسالحه (؟) ولكل المسلمين أجمعين

آمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم حسبنا الله ونعيم الوكيل

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+206+i

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper; replacement folios 1-3, 6-9, 20-21 and two whole quires (quinions) ff. 28-38, 49-58 are western laid paper as are ff. 48a and 181-82 which are later insertions (dated [12]20/1805 and 1157/1744 respectively) now bound into the volume

Dimensions: 235 x 150 mm leaf [190 x 120 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah (see f. 104a); 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-‘Irāqī (أبو البركات محمد بن محمد بن محمد العراقي)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings, overlinings, diagrams, numerals, and mathematical notations in red

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Some tidemarks towards head; some folios replaced (ff. 1-3, 6-9, 20-21, 28-38, 49-58)

Marginalia: Many by numerous hands (see especially notes on ff. 167-168, perhaps by hand of Aḥmad ibn ‘Arafāt [أحمد بن عرفات] whose owner's inscription is found on f. 203v)

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 7469

History of this record

Date(s)

17 Rabī‘ II 840 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Context of creation

Cairo

Provenance

• [al-Ḥāj Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd] al-Raḥmān al-Riwāq ([الحاج محمد ابن عبد] الرحمن الرواق) : his inscription defaced but partially legible, dated 28 R[ajab ?] 1220/22 October (?) 1805 (f. 1r; cf. f. 48av);
• al-Ḥāj Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Riwāq (الحاج محمد ابن عبد الرحمن رواق): his inscription, on letter dated 18 J[umādá II ?] [12]20/13 September (?) 1805 (f. 48av [fragment of letter bound in between ff. 48 and 49]);
• Aḥmad ibn ‘Arafāt (أحمد بن عرفات): his inscription without date, but before 906/1500-1 (see subsequent inscription; f. 203v);
• Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī al-Shāfi‘ī al-Kutubī (محمد بن أبي الفتح الصوفي الشافعي الكتبي, d. Cairo after 1500-1), astronomer and mathematician: his inscription, dated 906/1500-1 (f. 203v, cf Ibn Abī al-Fatḥ's signature in MS Cairo, Dār al-Kutub, Rīyāḍah 663, f. 55v, line 12, available at https://www.wdl.org/en/item/115/view/1/116/ [accessed 26/01/2017]);
• Muḥammad ‘Alī ibn al-Ustādh ‘Uthmān al-Mutaṭabib (محمد علي بن الأستاذ عثمان المتطبب): his inscription signed at Aleppo (حلب) without date, but after 906/1500-1 (see preceding inscription; f. 203v).

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Mary Rich (née Mackintosh), widow of Claudius James Rich (1786-1821), Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Baghdad (1808-1821), 25 March 1825

Related material

Finding aids

Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 417, pp. 198-99

Select Bibliography

Edition and French translation of work commented upon:

• Ibn al-Bannāʾ, Talkhīṣ aʿmāl al - ḥisāb , ed. by Mohamed Souissi (Muḥammad Sūwaysī) (Tunis: Manshūrāt al-Jāmi‘ah al-Tūnisīyah, 1969)

Studies:

• Charette, François, 'Ibn al-Majdī: Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybughā al-Majdī al-Shāfiʿī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 561-62
• Samsó, Julio, 'Ibn al-Bannāʾ: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al‐Azdī al-Marrākushī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 551-52
• Thompson, J.R. Fawcett, 'The Rich Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly 27.1/2 (1963) pp. 18-23
• Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th - 19th c.) , (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 815, pp. 276-77

Subjects

Chess--early works to 1800Mathematics -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ṢūlīAḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Bannā’Aḥmad ibn Rajab Ibn al-Majdī

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Ḥāwī al-lubāb wa-sharḥ talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb حاوي اللباب وشرح تلخيص أعمال الحساب Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 7469, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100040139973.0x000001> [accessed 4 May 2024]

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