Author
Qalaṣādī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1486.
Publication Date
1876
Subject
Qalaṣādī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad,, Qalaṣādī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, /
d. 1486., Qalaṣādī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, / d. 1486. /
Kashf al-jilbāb ʻan ʻilm al-ḥisāb., Arithmetic, Arithmetic /
Early works to 1900., 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. ([37] p. on 10 lvs.) ; 25 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002576824
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "An abridgement of the author's Kashf al-jilbāb ʻan ʻilm al-ḥisāb, in an introduction, four parts, and a conclusion.... Each part contains 8 chapters. This copy is defective; part 2, chapter 1 (end) to part 3, chapter 1 (beginning) is wanting (between ff. 11 and 12)." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. | Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.
Contains short mathematical tables.
Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others.
Date and name of owner/copyist in colophon: ʻalá yad al-faqīr Aḥmad Kharās ...[?]... Rajab sanat 1291 [August-September 1874].
For an earlier copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 801,3.
al-Qalaṣādī (Carthage, 1988).
Text (not this copy) published.
Microfilm available in repository.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner/copyist's name given in full: milk al-faqīr ilá rabbihi al-qadīr Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn Kharās al-ʻAdawī; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof and Louis Charles Karpinski.
