Hādhihi risālah fī al-ḥisāb ...
Contributors: Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?; Dimashqī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad; Ashʻarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 11th century-12th century; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1719
Place of publication: Turkey
Language: ara
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Arithmetic; Early works to 1900; Arab Mathematics; Early works to 1800; Arab Astronomy; Astrolabes; Geodesy; Geometry; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Risālah fī al-ḥisāb; Risālah mukhtaṣarah adhkuru fī-hā asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-ālah al-musammāh bi-al-asṭurlāb al-shamālī dhāt ṣafāʼiḥ wa-baʻḍ aʻmālihā.
Description: Three treatises in different hands, bound together. The first is an abridgement of Ibn al-Bannāʼ's Talkhīṣ by Ibn al-Hāʼim. The second is a short work on astrolabe terminology and use. The third appears to be an autograph of Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimashqī.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title of set from caption title to first work (f. 1v). Title of first and second work from introductions (f. 1v, 10v). Title of third work from added title (f. 20r).

Layout: 19-23 long lines with generous margins for notes; extensive marginalia in first work. Catchwords in third work each verso, lower left.

Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red, including source-text. Diagrams and calculations in the margins, several tables. Floral decoration on title page of third work (f. 20r).

Origin: The third work is dated 1132 A.H. and was copied by the author (f. 40r). The other two works are undated.

Shelfmark: MS Or 305.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Arabic.

Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).

Marbled paper cover over pasteboard with red spine and fore-edge.

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 1v-8v: Mukhtaṣar ḥāwin li-mā bi-Talkhīṣ Ibn al-Bannāʼ / Ibn al-Hāʼim; title: 2. f. 10v-19r: Risālah mukhtaṣarah adhkuru fī-hā asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-ālah al-musammāh bi-al-asṭurlāb al-shamālī dhāt ṣafāʼiḥ wa-baʻḍ aʻmālihā; title: 3. f. 20r-40r: Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah / ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimashqī