Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ Munyat al-ḥussāb
Contributors: Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1437 or 1438-1513; ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad, active 1747, scribe; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1747
Place of publication: [Morocco?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Arithmetic; Early works to 1900; Arab Mathematics; Early works to 1800; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: Bughyat al-ṭullāb ʻalá Munyat al-ḥussāb
Description: Commentary by Ibn Ghāzī on his own mathematical poem; source-text in red with commentary in dark brown.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Foliation: Idiosyncratic foliation in ink, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; references in the record are to the modern foliation.

Layout: 20 long lines; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Script: Written in maghribī in dark brown ink.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; some diagrams and tables.

Origin: Copy completed on 28 Ramaḍān 1160 AH by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad (f. 162v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 50.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Acquired by David Eugene Smith on 17 March, 1929 in Marrakesh (note in pencil, first flyleaf recto at front of book: "Marrakech, Mch. 17, 1929. DES.").

Brownish-red leather over pasteboard with blind-tooled frame; blind-stamped, blue paper onlay mandorla; flap has coordinating onlay.

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