(Fā’idah) min Sharḥ Shamsīyat al-ḥisāb من شرح شمسية الحساب (فائدة) Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله

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Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb (الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9). A copy of this commentary is found in Oxford, Bodleian MS Selden superius 36.

The text has almost no diacritical points.

Begins (f. 2v, lines 3-4):

فائدة وكثرًا ما يستعمل في الأعمال النجومية المذكورة في الرسمات (؟)

وفي غير المجومية أيضًا (؟) كمعرفة سموت البلدان وأبعاد ما بينها بعض من بعض

Ends (f. 3v, 16-18):

... وذلك

نافع لطالب البراهين في الأعمال وصاحب علم القياس (؟) في الأحوال

رزقه الله وجميع الطالبين

Extent and format

Ff. 2v-3v

It is part of

Mathematical compendium

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Ref: Add MS 23570

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v

History of this record

Date(s)

c 1605 (CE, Gregorian)

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Study:

• A. Rahman, Science and technology in medieval India: a bibliography of source materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian , (New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1982), p. 384

Subjects

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900

People & organisations

Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Nīsābūrī

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(Fā’idah) min Sharḥ Shamsīyat al-ḥisāb من شرح شمسية الحساب (فائدة) Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023431932.0x000001> [accessed 18 April 2024]

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