Two mathematical treatises

Content

Contents:

• (1) al-Jurjānī الجرجاني)), al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah (الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية; ff. 2v-88v);
• (2) al-Zamzamī (الزمزمي), al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār (المرشدة في صناعة الغبار; ff. 89v-116v).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. v+117+v

It is grouped into

al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد

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Ref: Add MS 15480, ff 2v-88v

al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār المرشدة في صناعة الغبار Zamzamī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad علي بن محمد، زمزمي

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Ref: Add MS 15480, ff 89v-116v

Physical characteristics

Physical characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm leaf [160 x 105 mm written (item 1, ff. 2v-88v), 140 x 95 mm (item 2, ff. 89v-116v)]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: No ruling visible; 21 lines per page (item 1, ff. 2v-88v), 13 lines per page (item 2, ff. 89v-116v); vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm (item 1, ff. 2v-88v), 9 lines per 10 cm (item 2, ff. 89v-116v)

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Ibrāhīm ibn Mullā Ayyūb ibn Gharīb ibn Ibrāhīm (إبراهيم بن ملا أيوب ابن غريب ابن ابراهيم, see f. 88v, lines 18-19)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and tables in red

Binding: British Museum binding with blind-tooled, green leather from earlier (Ottoman) boards pasted onto present boards

Condition: Water damage (especially f. 2v), some stains and foxing

Marginalia: Very few

Seals: Ff. 2r and 89r

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 15480

History of this record

Date(s)

1148-1177 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Provenance

• Ṣābir (صابر), his seal, without date (f. 2r)
• Ibrāhīm (إبراهيم), his seal, without date (f. 89r).

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Josiah Phillips Fletcher, 5 April 1845

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 894, p. 409

Subjects

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Abd al-Rashid al-Sajawandi

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