Sharḥ al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá al-Nuzhah fī al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Hāʼim
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Arab Mathematics
Description: Manuscript consists of an introduction, 2 chapters, and an epilogue.  The text is a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's book Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār, which itself represents the author's abridgement of his work Murshidat al-tālib illá asnaʼ al-maṭālib.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream with watermarks; leaves loose from binding; traces of humidity on leaves 51-56.  Black ink on title page; black and red in text.  Text is partially underlined in red ink on leaves 21-28.  A few marginal notes.  The formula Yā Kabikaj iḥfaẓ al-waraq appears on the title page in a second hand; title in a third, later hand.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-715.

Nastaʻliq script; 23 lines in written area, 16 x 10 cm.

Fol. 1a-64b; fol. 65a-66b blank.

Binding:  old cardboard; leather spine.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.