Details

Subject(s)

• Arithmetic—Early works to 1900 [Browse]
• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Nashartī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• نشرتي، محمد بن محمد، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 527H [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• tables (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

A work on arithmetic dealing with the transformation of integrals and fractions. With tables.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Text copied from, and verified against, that of Muḥammad al-Khiṭāb al-Mālikī of Makkah.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 82 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 2-8 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 2 Muḥarram 961 in Makkah by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nashartī al-Mālikī (fol. 83a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله الذي خلق الموت والحيوة ... اما بعد فان اعمال المناسخات من ارفع ابواب الفرايض قردا واشهرها بين الانام ذكرا ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليقه تجاه البيت الحرام ثاني محرم الحرام سنة 961

Binding note

Unbound.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1040.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420983

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