al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Ḥanbalī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, scribe; Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1772
Language: ara
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900; Arithmetic; Arab Mathematics
Work titles: Nuzhat al-ḥisāb
Description: According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār.
Notes: Ms.

Title from cover.

Colophon states that the manuscript was copied by Aḥmad ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanbalī and was completed on 6 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1185.

Paper:  yellowed cream; some of the leaves repaired; some have dark stains at the edges. Text framed by single red line.  Text principally in black, with a few rubricated words; few marginal notes in black ink. Calculations in red ink; catchwords on versos, some trimmed off.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscripts, 5-713.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-713.

Text is in Naskhī script; 22-28 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm.

Text is partially vocalized in the first paragraph only.

Fol. 1a-12a.

Binding:  modern cardboard covered with cloth and leather spine

An endowment by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr [Badīrī?] is recorded the frontispiece.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection,1945.