Sharḥ al-Khulāṣah fī al-ḥisāb
By: li-Ramaḍān al-Jazarī al-Qādirī
Contributors: ʻAmr ibn al-ʻĀṣ; Baytūshī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1751 or 2-1826 or 7, former owner; ʻAbāyī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻĪsá ibn Ismāʻīl, fl. 1809, former owner; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1665
Language: ara
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Arab Mathematics
Work titles: Ḥall al-Khulāṣah li-ahl al-riyāsah
Description: Text is a commentary on al-Khulaṣah fī al-ḥisāb by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.  Two poems attributed to ʻAmr ibn al-ʻĀṣ on title page in a different hand.  Last page includes a note in a third hand on a different topic.
Notes: Ms.

Title from introduction, fol. 1b.

Transcribed by author, Jumadá al-awwal 1076 H [November 1665].

Paper:  mostly white, with some brown, with watermarks.  Some leaves repaired; damage from humidity and termites.  Black ink on title page, text is in black with a few rubrications.  Text is particually underlined in either red or black.  Some marginal notes; catchwords on rectos. Pages numbered consecutively.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-720.

In Muʻjam al-Muʼallifin (IV:173), ʻUmar Riḍā Kaḥḥālah lists the author's name as Ramaḍān ibn Abī Hurayrah al-Jazarī al-Qādirī.  Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (S II, p. 596) lists author as Ramaḍān ibn Hurayrah al-Jazāʼirī al-Qādirī.

Nastaʻliq script; 25 lines in written area, 15 x 9 cm.

Some tables and figures in margins of pp. 68-75.

Fol. 1a-62b.

Binding:  modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

Names of former owners on title page:  ʻAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-ʼAlāʼī al-Baytūshī from Basra, dated 1189 H [1775]; and ʻAbd Allah ibn ʻĪsá ibn Ismāʻīl al-ʻAbāyī, dated 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1224 H [22 December 1809].

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

In Arabic; Persian poem on title page.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.