Qabas al-ḍawʼ fī al-ḥisāb
Contributors: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1589
Language: ara
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Arithmetic; Early works to 1900; Poetry; Arab Mathematics
Description: Text is a poem on arithmetic.
Notes: Ms.

Title from cover.

Transcribed by the author, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ḥamīdī, on 12 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 997 H [29 January 1589].

Paper:  yellowed cream with watermarks; brown stains at bottom of leaves; leaves repaired near spine.  Text is principally in black ink with some words in red.  Occasional diacritical marks; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-710.

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

Fol. 1b-7b.

Binding:  modern cardboard, covered in 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.