MS. Huntington 214 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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4 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Mathematics and Algebra

1. ff. 1v-34r
Author: Khuwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, fl. 813-846
Title: Mukhtaṣar min ḥisāb al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah*

*This title, used by Rosen in his edn. of 1831 from this unique MS., does not occur in the MS., which has simply Kitāb al-Khwārizmī [A. F. L. B.]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 216
[UAM. 918 (1) with corrig. Nicoll p. 601; revd. by Beeston]
2. ff. 34r-52v
Author: Muztaḥfī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar, al-Ḥarrāʻī*
Title: Muqaddimah fī al-ḥisāb

*Beeston conjectures Khuzāʻī

f. 34r contains a fāʼidah on al-bidaʻ

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 918 (2), with corrig. Nicoll p. 601; revd. by Beeston
3. ff. 53r-75r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kitāb al-Murāsalah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah

f. 75r contains two short work (poetry)

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 918 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 601; revd. by Beeston]
4. ff. 76v-86v
Author: Faraḍī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, al-Shaqqāq d. 1083
Title: al-Muqaddimah al-kāfiyah fī uṣūl al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah

Identification of author is Beestonʼs : MS. has only Abū... Aḥmad

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 402
[UAM. 918 (4), with corrig. Nic. p. 601; revd. by Beeston]

Physical Description

Form: codex
34 ff. 19 ff. 23 ff. 11 ff.

History

Origin: 1342 CE 1342 CE 1342 CE 14th cent.? 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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