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On calculation with integers and fractions; a copy of a work composed in the Maghrib; some marginal notations.
Support: paper; Extent: 86 leaves : 232 x 165 (164 x 114) mm. bound to 234 x 175 mm; Collation: Paper, i + 86 + i; 1⁸ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁶. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Written in 15 long lines.
Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page and introduction (f. 1r, 1v).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Baghdād
Copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujill al-Baghdādī at al-Madrasah al-Niẓāmīyah in Baghdad, completed A.H. Safar 590 (Jan.-Feb. 1194, f. 86r).
Early calf over paper boards, blind-stamped with central four-lobed medallion and rolled double frame with text in the outer frame.
Arabic
Formerly owned by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (owner's statement, f.1r).
Formerly owned by ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab (Taghlib) al-Sāʻātī al-Baghdādī, (owner's statement, f. 1r).
Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 Apr. 1999, lot 320, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Baghdād
Copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujill al-Baghdādī at al-Madrasah al-Niẓāmīyah in Baghdad, completed A.H. Safar 590 (Jan.-Feb. 1194, f. 86r).
Arabic
Formerly owned by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī
Formerly owned by ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab
Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 Apr. 1999, lot 320, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
On calculation with integers and fractions; a copy of a work composed in the Maghrib; some marginal notations.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page and introduction (f. 1r, 1v).
Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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