MS. Huntington 194 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 9 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Arithmetic, Inheritance and succession, Islamic law, Shafiites, Algebra, and Weights and measures
1. ff. 1v-33r
Author: Maghribī, Abū Naṣr Samawʼal ibn Yaḥyá, 12th cent.
Title: al-Tabṣirah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 488
[UAM. 966 [first entry] (1), revd. by Beeston]
2. ff. 34v-38v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A piece concerning farāʼiḍ *, probably an extract from a larger work.

*laws of inheritance

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Law
[UAM. 966 [first entry (2 [i]), revd. by Beeston]
3. ff. 40r-44v
Author: Anonymous
Title: al-Masāʼil al-imtiḥānīyah allatī tajrī majrá al-mujāwarāt ?

A piece concerning farāʼiḍ

*who numbers it (2) and (3)

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Law
[UAM. 966 [first entry] (2 (ii)), with corrig. Nicoll p. 603; revised by Beeston*]
4. ff. 46v-66v*
Author: Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459
Title: Commentary on the Minhāj al-ṭālibīn of Nawawī, 1233-1277

Extract on farāʼiḍ only

d.Who numbers it (4)

*Folld. (f. 67r, v) by [extract from?] a lāmīyah poem on lexicogy, in a much later hand.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 395
[UAM. 966 [first entry] (3), with corrig. Nic. p. 603; revd. by Beeston]d.
5. ff. 68v-115v*
Author: Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, d. 1575
Title: Commentary on the Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ʻilm al-hisāb of Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412

*Folld. (ff. 116, 117) by misc. notes on arithmetic

**Who numbers it (5)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 125
[UAM. 966 [first entry] (4), with corrig. Nic. p. 286, note g; revd. by Beeston]**
6. ff. 118v-219v*
Author: ʻUrḍī, Muḥammad ibn Fakhr al-Dīn ibn Qays al-Nubhah
Title: Commentary on the Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ʻilm al-hisāb of Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412

*Folld. (ff. 220r-221r) by misc. notes.

**Who numbers it (6)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 125
[UAM. 966 [first entry] (5), with corrig. Nicoll p. 603; revd. by Beeston]**
7. ff. 222r-285r*
Author: Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, d. 1204
Title: al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah

With commentary al-Durr al-thamīn by Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412

*Who numbers it (7)

*Folld. (f. 285v) by misc. notes

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 471
[UAM. 966 [first entry] (6), revd. by Beeston*]
8. ff. 286r-287v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A short note on the varying local values of the raṭl weight

*who numbers it (8)

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 966 [first entry] (after 6), revd. by Beeston*]
9. ff. 290v-367v
Author: Shāfiʻī, Yaḥyá ibn Taqī al-Dīn ibn Ismāʼīl, 1546-1622
Title: Commentary [compd. 1622] on the Daqāʼiq al-ghawāmiḍ fī ʻilmay al-īṣāʼ wa-al-farāʼiḍ of Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar al-Bārīnī 1310-63

*[who numbers it (9)]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 88
[UAM. 966 (first entry) (7), with corrig. Nic. p. 603; revd. by Beeston*]

Physical Description

Form: codex
33 ff. 5 ff. 5 ff. 21 ff. 48 ff. 102 ff. 64 ff. 2 ff. 78 ff.

History

Origin: Mid-17th cent.? CE 1651 CE 1651 CE 1490 CE 1649 CE 1647 CE 1649 CE 1650 CE 1647 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.

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JISC

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