Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 50

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DS ID:

DS6602

Shelfmark:

MS Or 50

Title:

Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ Munyat al-ḥussāb

Author:

Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1437 or 1438-1513 / ابن غازي، محمد بن احمد، 1437 أو 1438-1513

Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi WIKIDATA

Scribe:

ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad, active 1747 / عبد القادر بن احمد، active 1747،

ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad WIKIDATA

Place:

Morocco?

Morocco TGN

Date:

1747.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 164, iii leaves : paper, illustrations ; 202 x 157 (125 x 75) mm, bound to 205 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
Foliation: Idiosyncratic foliation in ink, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; references in the record are to the modern foliation.
Layout: 20 long lines; catchwords each verso, lower left.
Script: Written in maghribī in dark brown ink.
Decoration: Rubrications in red; some diagrams and tables.
Origin: Copy completed on 28 Ramaḍān 1160 AH by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad (f. 162v).
Shelfmark: MS Or 50.
Acquired by David Eugene Smith on 17 March, 1929 in Marrakesh (note in pencil, first flyleaf recto at front of book: "Marrakech, Mch. 17, 1929. DES.").

Keyword:

tables (documents)

full covers

Islamic bindings

onlays (decorative components)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

diagrams

manuscripts (documents)

envelope flaps (features)

Arithmetic

Manuscripts, Arabic

Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1437 or 1438-1513. Munyat al-ḥussāb

Mathematics, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642091

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642091_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library