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Metadata

DS ID:

DS717

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 481

Title:

Ḥaṭṭ al-niqāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb / حط النقاب عن وجوه اعمال الحساب

Ḥaṭṭ al-niqāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb

Author:

Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn, -1406 or 1407 / ابن القنفذ، أحمد بن حسين، -1406 or 1407

Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn Ibn al Qunfudh WIKIDATA

Place:

Morocco?

Morocco TGN

Date:

between 14--? and 16--?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 159 leaves : paper ; 268 x 195 (205 x 135) mm bound to 274 x 208 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: 159 leaves; [1-55, i-ii, 56-151, i-ii, 152-165, 164-273, 174-179, 280-312], later pagination in blue ink, upper center. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso, many obscured by past water damage.
Layout: Written in 24 long lines.
Script: Written in maghribi script in brown ink; pointed. Headings in larger script.
Decoration: Calculations in red ink. Numerous tables in red and brown ink.
Binding: Later red leather, blind-stamped with central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and frame; rebacked. Marbled doublure.
Origin: Written in northern Africa, probably Morocco, in the 15th or 16th century.
Watermarks: Laid European paper with grape watermark.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, July 2004.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

commentaries

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

codices (bound manuscripts)

Mathematics, Arab

Talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb (Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad)

Arithmetic

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9959542723503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania