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al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī ṣinʻat ʻamal al-ghubār.
البيان و التذكار في صنعة عمل الغبار.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 293
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, active 12th century.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Algebra--Early works to 1800.
- Algebra.
- Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
- Arithmetic.
- Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematics, Arab.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- 12th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (owner's statement, f.1r).
- من كتب محمد بن محمد بن الحسن الطوسي غفر الله له ولوالديه (f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab (Taghlib) al-Sāʻātī al-Baghdādī, (owner's statement, f. 1r).
- يملك هذا الكتاب من فضل ربه الوهاب علي بن ثعلب (تغلب) الساعاتي البغدادي، (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.
- Physical Description:
- 86 leaves : wove paper ; 232 x 165 (164 x 114) mm bound to 234 x 175 mm
- Production:
- Baghdād, A.H. 590 (1194)
- بغداد، 590 هجري (1194)
- Other Title:
- Bayān wa al-tadhkār fī ṣanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār
- Title from colophon: Juzʼ al-awwal min al-bayān.
- Title from colophon: جزء الاول من البيان.
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- On calculation with integers and fractions; a copy of a work composed in the Maghrib; some marginal notations.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page and introduction (f. 1r, 1v).
- Collation: Paper, i + 86 + i; 1⁸ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁶. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
- Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
- Binding: Early calf over paper boards, blind-stamped with central four-lobed medallion and rolled double frame with text in the outer frame.
- Origin: 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).
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 38 (LJS 293).
- Publications about:
- Oaks, Jeffrey A., "The medieval Arabic zero," in Peter Gobets and Robert Lawrence Kuhn, eds., The origin and significance of zero: an interdisciplinary perspective (Boston: Brill, 2024), p. 256.
- Cited as:
- Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, Bayān wa al-tadhkār fī ṣanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār (LJS 293). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 779966851
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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