Hādhihi risālah li-Ibn al-Hāʼim al-musammāt [sic] Nuzhat al-ḥisāb, al-mukhtaṣarah min al-Murshidah
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: 32
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900; Arithmetic; Arab Mathematics
Work titles: Nuzhat al-ḥisāb
Description: According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār.  The manuscript contains an introduction, two chapters, and an epilogue.  On fol. 1a is a table of written numbers for use in official documents as well as verses (in code?).  On fol. 33b, verse 6:115 of the Qur'an is written in another hand.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream with watermarks, split from spine; termite damage; affected by humidity at bottom of pages, and brown stains on the last page. Text framed by double brown line.  Text principally in black, with a few rubricated words. Calculations and notes in margin in brown ink; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-712.

Text is in Nastaʻliq script, with Diwani script on title page including a table of numbers from 1 to 100,000, and a verse from the Qur'an in Thuluth script on fol. 33b.

Fol. 1a-33b.

Binding:  old torn cardboard with leather spine and edges; spine broken into two.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection,1945.