Author
Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412.
Publication Date
1598
Subject
Algebra, Algebra /
Early works to 1800., Mathematics, Arab, Mathematics, Arab /
Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([16] p.) ; 19 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002563053
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "A poem on algebra with unidenfified commentary (not that of Sibṭ al-Māridīnī or of Zakarīyaʼ al-Anṣārī)." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. | Text rubricated; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 700,2; marginal notes in a different hand; pp. [15-16] include experiments in calligraphy.
Terminus post quem date given by note on p. [16]: tajribat al-qalam fī yawm al-sabt tāsiʻ wa-ʻishrīn shahr al-Muḥarram sanat aḥad wa-tisʻīn wa-thamānimiʼah [4 February 1486].
Pp. [2-5]. Bound with: al-Muqbil fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah, pp. [6-14].
Microfilm available in repository.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1]: fī nawbat al-faqīr Ṭalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ramlī; on p. [1]: manuscript note in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.