al-ʻIqd al-thamīn fī-mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-mawāzīn
By: taʼlīf al-ʻallāmah al-jalīl al-marḥūm al-shaykh Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jabartī al-Ḥanafī ...
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1854
Language: ara
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Arab Weights and measures; Early works to 1800
Notes: Ms.

The colophon (fol. 42b) says that this manuscript was copied from a manuscript written in 1194 H [1780], which itself was copied from a manuscript written by the author himself.

Paper:  Cream, with watermarks, in good condition.  Title page in black ink; rest of text in black with some red ink; marginal notes and calculations in various hands, some in color (pink and violet ink fol. 17a-b).  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-612.

Naskhī script; 32 lines in written area, 17 x 11 cm.

Charts (fol. 9a, 35a-37b, 38b-39a).

Fol. 1a-42b.

Binding:  cardboard, with leather spine.  Decorated end paper.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri, 1945.