Kitāb rafʻ al-ḥijāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb
Subtitle: al-mulakhkhaṣah maʻa taqrīb al-maʻānī wa-ḍabṭ al-qawāʻid wa-al-mabānī fī ghayr hādhā al-kitāb
By: waḍaʻahu Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān al-Azdī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Bannā al-Marākashī ...
Contributors: Jabartī, Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm, 1698 or 9-1774?, former owner; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900; Arithmetic; Arab Mathematics
Work titles: Rafʻ al-ḥijāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb
Description: Ms. is a commentary in two parts on the author's treatise on mathematics (Talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb).
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks, in good condition; loose from spine.  Red and black ink on title page; text is principally black, with some words in red; occasional diacritical marks; some marginal notes; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-721.

Naskhī script with titles of chapters in Thuluth; 25 lines in written area, 16 x 9 cm.

Fol. 1a-54b.

Ownership inscription of Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jabartī on title page and his ownership stamp, dated 1154 H [1741].  Other (illegible) ownership stamps on title page and fol. 54b.

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.

In Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.