al-Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah
Contributors: Fayyūmī, Muḥammad Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Azhārī, former owner; Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, d. 1204; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1800
Language: ara
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Arab Mathematics
Work titles: Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah fī sharḥ al-Yāsamīnīyah
Description: Text is a short treatise on arithmetic and a commentary on the versified treatise of arithmetic entitled al-Yāsamīnīyah by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj Ibn al-Yāsamīn.
Notes: Ms.

Title from fol. 1a in later hand.

Paper:  yellowed cream, watermark of Venetian papermaker Andrea Galvani (d. 1855), in good condition, leaves loose from binding.  Text of al-Yāsamīnīyah in red, with commentary in black ink.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-730.

Naskhī script; 25 lines in written area, 18 x 11 cm.

Fol. 1a-8b; fol. 9-10 blank.

Ownership stamp of endowment by Muḥammad Aḥmad [illegible] al-Azharī al-Fayyūmī on fol. 1a and 8b.

Binding:  modern cardboard covered with cloth, leather spine.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

Purchase ; Mahmud al-Mansuri ; 1945.

Arabic.