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The volume contains 65 leaves. Folio 54a is blank. Folio 22 has been cut out from the volume and is now missing except for a 30 mm strip still attached in the gutter. Folio 23 is blank. Folios 24a–25b are bound in upside down in the volume. Folio 26 is blank except for two lines of casually written poetry; folio 27a is blank. Folio 57a is a later fihrist to the fragment comprising item 6; folio 56b is blank. The two front and two back endleaves are blank, except for the UAM entry number. — Multiple dates

MS. Selden Superius 44

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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From Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

The volume contains 65 leaves. Folio 54a is blank. Folio 22 has been cut out from the volume and is now missing except for a 30 mm strip still attached in the gutter. Folio 23 is blank. Folios 24a–25b are bound in upside down in the volume. Folio 26 is blank except for two lines of casually written poetry; folio 27a is blank. Folio 57a is a later fihrist to the fragment comprising item 6; folio 56b is blank. The two front and two back endleaves are blank, except for the UAM entry number. — Multiple dates

Shelfmark

MS. Selden Superius 44

Date

15th cent?

1487

1407

Language

Arabic

Contents

1. ff. 1v-21v Author: Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d. 1328 or 9 Title: al-Risālah al-shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb
2. ff. 24r, 25v Author: Ibn al-Khaddām, ʻImād al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1245 -? Title: al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī qawāʻid al-ḥisāb al-handasīyah
3. ff. 27v-53v Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 Title: Jawāmiʻ al-ḥisāb bil-takht wa-al-turāb
4. f. 54v Author: Hippocrates أبقراط Title: Kitāb al-Fuṣūl Title: كتاب الفصول
5. ff. 55v, 56r Author: Anonymous Title: Diagrams of pulleys... etc.
6. ff. 57v, 65v Author: Kirmānī, ʿImād al-Dīn Faqīh Title: Dīwān-i ʿImād

Form

codex

Physical extent

21 fols. 2 fols. 27 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 9 ff.

Acquisition

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.

Provenance

The collections of John Selden .

Subject

Medicine

Mathematics

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Title

Arithmetic, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Selden Superius 44

Date

1407, 1487, 15th century, n.d. n.d.

Language

Arabic

Physical extent

65 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 3276 acquired by the Bodleian Library

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Collection contents

Manuscripts of John Selden

Arithmetic, etc.

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  • Anonymous
  • Hippocrates, v460-v370

  • ʻImād Faqīh, ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd, ca. 1291-1371 or 2

  • Ibn al-Khaddām, ʻImād al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, b. 1245

  • Selden, John, 1584-1654

  • Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d. 1328 or 9

  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

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