880-02 al-Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah : manuscript, [1486]

Text rubricated; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 700,2; marginal notes in a different hand; pp. [15-16] include experiments in calligraphy.

Terminus post quem date given by note on p. [16]: tajribat al-qalam fī yawm al-sabt tāsiʻ wa-ʻishrīn shahr al-Muḥarram sanat aḥad wa-tisʻīn wa-thamānimiʾah [4 February 1486].

Pp. [2-5]. Bound with: al-Muqbil fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah, pp. [6-14].

GAL,

v. II, p. 154; GAL, Suppl. II, p. 154

"A poem on algebra with unidenfified commentary (not that of Sibṭ al-Māridīnī or of Zakarīyaʾ al-Anṣārī)." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.

Microfilm available in repository.

07/--/36

Manuscript

McGregor Fund

Purchase, 1933/34

Egyptian mathematician who taught at the Ṣāliḥīyah madrasah in Jerusalem; author of numerous influential works on arithmetic, algebra, and the arithmetic of inheritance.

Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1]: fī nawbat al-faqīr Ṭalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ramlī; on p. [1]: manuscript note in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.