Sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
Contributors: Khāsikī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, scribe; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1761
Language: ara
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900; Arithmetic; Arab Mathematics
Description: The text is a commentary on al-Lumʻah al-yasīrah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Hāʼim.
Notes: Ms.

Title written in a later hand on fol. 1a.

Transcribed by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khasikī, who worked from the author's copy, (dated 893 H [1487]).  He completed this manuscript in 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1174 H [23 July 1761] (colophon, fol. 22a).

Abu Tig, Egypt.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks.  Last leaf repaired, damage from humidity and termites on most pages.  Black ink on title page, text of al-Lumaʻ in red, commentary in black. Some marginal notes; title page has stars and Arabic letters written over earlier text.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-709.

Naskhī script; 25 lines in written area, 17 x 11 cm.

Fol. 1a-22b.

Binding:  removed from binding.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī Maktabat al-Kūngris; 42.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.