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Taḥṣīl al-munā fī sharḥ Talkhīṣ Ibn al-Bannāʼ; تحصيل المنا في شرح تلخيص ابن البناء

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35717p1p
Title: Taḥṣīl al-munā fī sharḥ Talkhīṣ Ibn al-Bannāʼ, تحصيل المنا في شرح تلخيص ابن البناء
Name: Mawāhidī, Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Yaʻqūb ibn Ayyūb, active 1350-1389, Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ḥusn (scribe), Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?
Date: 1445
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Commentaries, Tables (documents), Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Early works, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Commentary on the Talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb, a treatise on mathematical operations by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Bannāʼ, with particular focus on calculations involving fractions and square roots. According to the notes of Mahdi Abdeljaouad and Jeffrey Oaks, the manuscript includes excerpts from 3 other treatises: Rafʻ al-ḥijāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb (his own commentary on the Talkhīṣ); Maqālāt fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb; and Kitāb al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (a treatise on algebra). 5 computational tables (f. 27r, 34v, 35r, 46v, 49v). Includes corrections of text and calculations.
Extent: 96 leaves : paper, tables ; 210 x 140 (177 x 115) mm bound to 212 x 155 mm
Language: Arabic
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Teacher and author in mathematics and inheritance law., Title from colophon (f. 96r)., Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto., Layout: Written in 24 lines., Script: Written in maghribi script in brown ink, pointed., Decoration: Rubrications in red including citations and numbers; colophon in red ink., Binding: Later red leather with flap (Type II), tooled central mandorla and double frame. Spines repaired., Origin: Written in Granada, completed 11 Sha'ban A.H. 849 (November 1445) by Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ḥusn (f. 96r)., Arabic.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35717p1p, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs464.html, Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000472
Subject: Ibn al-Bannāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321? Talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb, Algebra -- Early works to 1800, Algebra, Mathematics, Arab -- Early works to 1800, Mathematics, Arab
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 464
Provenance: Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2004., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016., Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9948304643503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p35717p1p/manifest

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