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Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad -1412—Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah [Browse]
• Algebra—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ṣiddīqī, Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• صديقي، محمد احمد بن احمد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 528H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Muqniʻ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 15 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (unidentified with countermark initials "EB[?]") ; MS in good condition, some staining and worm damage.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Sunday 22 Shaʻbān 1017 by Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 15a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال سيدنا ومولانا شيخ مشايخ الاسلام ... ابي يحيى زكريا الاتصارى الشافعى ... وبعد فان المقنع المنظوم علي بحر الطويل في علم الجبر والمقابلة ...
• Colophon: نجز هذا الکتاب في يوم الاحد المبارك ثاني عشرين شهر شعبأن المکرم سنة 1017 من الهجرة الشريفة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم السلام ... کتبه لنفسه ومن يشاء الله من بعده ويرجوان يکون لاولاده محمد بن احمد بن احمد بن زين البکري الصديقي الشافعي ختم الله له بخير وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وسلم

Binding note

Unbound.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Ownership signature of Ḥasan al-Jabartī with his seal impression and the scribe's signature Muḥammad Aḥmad [..] al-Bakrī with his seal impression dated 1009. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1049.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420491

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