MS. Huntington 570 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Huntington Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Irshād al-ṭullāb ilá wasīlat al-ḥisāb by Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423

Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423

Title: Irshād al-ṭullāb ilá wasīlat al-ḥisāb

commentary (compd. 1488) on al-Lumaʻ al-yasīrah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb of Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412

*ff. 68v-69r contain an arithmetical problem in a later hand.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 125

[UAM. 962, revd. by Beeston]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 69 ff.*

History

Origin: 1639 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

Arithmetic--Early works to 1900

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