Bahāʼīyah fī al-ḥisāb
Contributors: Ṭabbāqī, Muḥammad, former owner; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900; Arithmetic; Arab Mathematics
Work titles: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb
Description: Text is a well-known manual on arithmetic.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream, no visible watermarks.  Text is incomplete (leaves missing at end).  Title page and text are in black ink, with a few rubricated words. Some diacritical marks.  Text on fol. 2b-14b is framed by two red lines; text on fol. 15a-19a is framed by a single red line.  No frame and no rubrication on fol. 19b-34b.  Fol. 17a-b written in a different hand.  First leaf repaired. Leaves with notes inserted between fol. 13 and 14 and between fol. 20 and 21.  Copious marginal notes on first 19 leaves; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-719.

Naskhī script; 11 lines in written area, 13 x 7 cm.

Charts (fol. 4b, 6a, 28a)

Fol. 1a-34b (fol. 35-38 blank).

An ownership stamp: "[illegible] al-Sayyid Yūsuf" dated 1254 H [1838] on title page.  Name of another former owner, Muḥammad Ṭabbaqī, on page before title page, with Turkish poetry dated to 1268 H [1851].

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.

Arabic; some poetry in Turkish; Arabic alphbet.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.