University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 481

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DS ID:

DS717

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 481

Title:

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

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Origin: Written in northern Africa, probably Morocco, in the 15th or 16th century.
Binding: Later red leather, blind-stamped with central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and frame; rebacked. Marbled doublure.
Ms. codex.
Watermarks: Laid European paper with grape watermark.
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.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, July 2004.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.

Keyword:

commentaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

Mathematics, Arab

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

Arithmetic

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959542723503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3vm42z0v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania