9 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Arithmetic, Inheritance and succession, Islamic law, Shafiites, Algebra, and Weights and measures — Multiple dates | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

9 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Arithmetic, Inheritance and succession, Islamic law, Shafiites, Algebra, and Weights and measures — Multiple dates

Shelfmark

MS. Huntington 194

Date

1647

1649

1490

1650

1651

Mid-17th cent.?

Language

Arabic

1. ff. 1v-33r Author: Maghribī, Abū Naṣr Samawʼal ibn Yaḥyá, 12th cent. Title: al-Tabṣirah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb

2. ff. 34v-38v Author: Anonymous Title: A piece concerning farāʼiḍ *, probably an extract from a larger work.

3. ff. 40r-44v Author: Anonymous Title: al-Masāʼil al-imtiḥānīyah allatī tajrī majrá al-mujāwarāt ?

4. ff. 46v-66v* Author: Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459 Title: Commentary on the Minhāj al-ṭālibīn of Nawawī, 1233-1277

5. ff. 68v-115v* Author: Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, d. 1575 Title: Commentary on the Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ʻilm al-hisāb of Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412

6. ff. 118v-219v* Author: ʻUrḍī, Muḥammad ibn Fakhr al-Dīn ibn Qays al-Nubhah Title: Commentary on the Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ʻilm al-hisāb of Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412

7. ff. 222r-285r* Author: Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, d. 1204 Title: al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah

8. ff. 286r-287v Author: Anonymous Title: A short note on the varying local values of the raṭl weight

9. ff. 290v-367v Author: Shāfiʻī, Yaḥyá ibn Taqī al-Dīn ibn Ismāʼīl, 1546-1622 Title: Commentary [compd. 1622] on the Daqāʼiq al-ghawāmiḍ fī ʻilmay al-īṣāʼ wa-al-farāʼiḍ of Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar al-Bārīnī 1310-63

Form

codex

Physical extent

33 ff. 5 ff. 5 ff. 21 ff. 48 ff. 102 ff. 64 ff. 2 ff. 78 ff.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Provenance

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Subject

Arithmetic

Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)

Algebra--Early works to 1800

Islamic law

Shafiites--Early works to 1800

Weights and measures, Arab

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