Details

Subject(s)

• Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad active 12th century—Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah [Browse]
• سجاوندي، سراج الدين محمد بن محمد، active 12th century—فرائض السراجية [Browse]
• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Summary note

14th-century copy of a late 13th-century manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance, in the form of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on the Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah of 12th-century legal and mathematical scholar Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī.

Notes

• Binding: Morocco with flap (Type II), faded marbled paper overlay on covers.
• Decoration: Diagrams (f. 43v-46r, 111r-111v, 114v-117r) and tables (105r-110r, 112r-114r, 118v-120v) in red and black ink; title page text in red and black ink (f. 1r); occasional words and phrases in red ink; double frame of red ink around text block and double red lines between sections on final pages of manuscript (f. 104v-120v).
• Foliation: Paper, i + 123 leaves; [i, 1-123]; alternating gatherings of 10 and 6 leaves.
• Layout: Written in 19 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Sections of the copy dated to different times, though signed by the same scribe. First section dated 10 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 723 (27 March 1323) (f. 104r), end of the book dated Rajab 724 (July 1324) (f. 118r), and the added pages after the end dated Ramaḍān 747 (December 1346-January 1347) (f. 122r). The scribe is Masʻūd ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Masʻūd (f. 118r) with the added nisbah al-Shīrānī [?] (f. 104r).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink, mostly unpointed, by at least 2 hands (first hand, f. 1v-56v, 104v-120v; second hand, 57r-104r), with an additional leaf bound in, f. 63.
• Title from title page (f. 1r).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jun. 2002.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 39 (LJS 436).

Cite as

LJS 436.

OCLC

779856980

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