Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Islamic Arabic 341 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)

Mingana

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Al-minaḥ al-ilāhīya wa al-hibāt al-rabbānīya by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanbalī al-Faiyūmī al-Madīnī, lived in the 19th century

A treatise on arithmetic consisting of an introduction, 11 chapters and conclusion, composed in 1273 at the al-Azhar mosque.

Incipit: الحمد الله الذي اوجب علينا تعلم الحساب لنحفظ ما وجب حفظه

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 1896

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 30 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 24.0 × 17.1 cm.
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Naskhī, possibly the author's autograph.

Decoration

Headings and figures in red

History

Origin: Dated 1275 AH

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on H. L. Gottschalk et al.: Islamic Arabic Manuscripts. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts. Vol. IV. Revised edition edited by Derek Hopwood. Birmingham: Selly Oak Colleges, 1985.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cadbury Research Library

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