Kitāb sharḥ Nuzhat fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
By: taʼlīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī ...
Contributors: Azharī, Ḥasan al-Badrī al-Shāfiʼī al-Shādhilī al-Laythī, fl. 1838, former owner; Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1722
Language: ara
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Arab Mathematics
Work titles: Sharḥ Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār
Description: Manuscript is a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's book Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār, which itself represents the author's abridgement of his work Murshidat al-tālib illá asnaʼ al-maṭālib.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream with watermarks, in moderate condition.  Leaves are loose from binding; last two leaves have been repaired; a little termite damage.  Red and black ink on title page; text of Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār is in red and the commentary is in black; notes and calculations in a second hand in the margins.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-714.

Naskhī script; 23 lines in written area, 15 x 10 cm.

Fol. 1a-62b.

On title page is the ownership signature of Ḥasan al-Badrī  al-Shāfiʼī al-Shādhilī al-Laythī al-Azharī, dated 1254 H [1838], whose name also appears on fol. 62b, dated 1258 H [1842].  There is also a faint ownership stamp on fol. 1a.

Binding:  Modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.