Ḥāshīyat al-Ḥifnī ʻalá al-Yāsamīnīyah
Contributors: Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, d. 1204; Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423; Fayyūmī, Muḥammad Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Azhārī, associated name; Maḥallī, ʻUthmān ibn Yūsuf ibn Yūsuf ʻUthmān al-Ṣayyād, scribe; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Arab Mathematics; Algebra
Description: Commentary on Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah fī sharḥ al-Yāsamīnīyah by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīni, which itself is an exposition of al-Yāsamīnīyah by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj Ibn al-Yāsamīn.  The colophon (fol. 14b) says that the author finished composing the work on 14 Shaʻbān 1167 H [6 June 1754].
Notes: Ms.

Transcribed by ʻUthmān ibn Yūsuf ibn Yūsuf ʻUthmān al-Ṣayyād al-Maḥallī.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks, with untrimmed edges.  Leaves loose from binding.  Dark stains on some pages. Catchwords on rectos; marginal notes.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-731.

Naskhi script; 27 lines in written area, 19 x 13 cm.

Fol. 1a-14b; fol. 15a blank except for ownership stamp; 15a-17b blank; 18a has the names of Arabic months and some underlined numbers; 18b blank except for ownership stamps.

Endowment stamp of Muḥammad Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Azhārī al-Fayyūmī (dated 1325 H (?) [1907] on fol. 1a, 15a, and 18b.

Binding:  Modern loose 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.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.