Kitāb al-qawl al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ
Contributors: Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1472
Language: ara
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Arab Mathematics; Early works to 1800; Arabic Manuscripts; Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad)
Other titles: Kitāb al-qawl al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah; Qawl al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ
Description: Commentary on Al-Muqniʻ, a poem on algebra by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Hāʼim.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 21 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red, including source-text.

Origin: Item is dated 19 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 876 AH (f. 29v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 147.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).

Full covers of marbled paper over pasteboard with flap. Embossed leather medallion onlays on both covers, though mostly removed from front cover. Plain brown paper doublure.

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