Ḍawʼ al-lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb
Contributors: Bahwāshī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, former owner; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1588
Language: ara
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Arithmetic; Early works to 1900; Poetry; Arab Mathematics
Work titles: Ḍawʼ al-lumaʻ
Description: Text is a poem on arithmetic dedicated to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Bahwashī al-Shāfiʻī, as mentioned at the end of the manuscript.
Notes: Ms.

Title from introduction (fol. 1b): Ḍawʼ al-lumaʻ.

Transcribed by the author, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ḥamīdī, in 997 H [1588] as a gift to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Bahwashī al-Shāfiʻī.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks; leaves repaired near spine; edges have dark stains and traces of damage from humidity.  Text in black with some words rubricated; diacritical marks; a few marginal notes; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-708.

Nashkī script; 17 lines in written area, 15 x 10 cm.

Fol. 1a-17b.

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.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.