MS. Marsh 640 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Islam, Arithmetic, and Inheritance and succession
1. f. 3r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Duʻāʼ mubārak

A prayer

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Prayers
[NAM. 287 (1)]
2. ff. 3v-28r
Author: Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412
Title: Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb

Lacking end

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 125
[NAM. 287 (2), with corrig. Nicoll p. 545]
3. ff. 28v-102r
Author: Dimashqì, Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aʼazz
Title: Tuḥfat al-ṭullāb

Commentary* on the Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ʻilm al-hisāb of Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412 , an abridgment of his own Murshidat al-ṭālib ilá asná al-maṭālib

*[Acc. to Brock. the commentary is on the unabridged Murshidat; the authorship is also Brock.ʼs ascription (from Rumpur 412116?).]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 125
[NAM. 287 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 545]
4. f. 102v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fāʼidah fī kayfīyat ikhrāj al-qīrāṭ min al-ʻadad alladhī ṣaḥḥat minhu al-masʼalah min ayy ʻadad kāna

A method of apportioning inheritances

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[NAM. 287 (4)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
1 f. 26 ff. 75 ff. 1 f.

History

Origin: 1559 CE 1559 CE 1559 CE 1559 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Record Sources

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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