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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah اللمعة الماردينية

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Title

  • al-Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah

Other Title

  • اللمعة الماردينية

Summary

  • Text is a short treatise on arithmetic and a commentary on the versified treatise of arithmetic entitled al-Yāsamīnīyah by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj Ibn al-Yāsamīn.
  • The present manuscript preserves a very elegant copy of a work by one of the most prolific authors of the second half of the 15th century in the field of mathematics and related subjects: Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ġazal, best known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī ("the son of al-Māridīnī's daughter") from the name of his famous maternal ancestor, who was also a mathematician. The Lum'a al-Māridīnīyya is an extensive prose commentary on a famous poem on algebra composed by the Maghrebi mathematician al-Yāsamīn around the last decade of the 12th century. In the present copy of this work, the poetical verses are highlighted in red ink. This feature provides the reader with an easy tool for distinguishing between the text of al-Yāsamīn's poem and its commentary. Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, who was at the time active as muwaqqit (timekeeper) at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, selects a group of verses and analyzes their content in detail. The treatise opens with a definition of the elements of algebra known at the time (number, root, and sequence), then moves on to the description of the six canonical equations that had already been identified by al-Ḫwārizmī during the ninth century. A treatment of the algebraic operations of restoration, comparison, and multiplication and division of monomials concludes the poem and its commentary. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
  • Fayyūmī, Muḥammad Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Azhārī, former owner
  • Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, -1204
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18--]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj,---1204.--Yāsamīnīyah
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Binding: modern cardboard covered with cloth, leather spine.
  • -  Fol. 1a-8b; fol. 9-10 blank.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-730.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Naskhī script; 25 lines in written area, 18 x 11 cm.
  • -  Ownership stamp of endowment by Muḥammad Aḥmad [illegible] al-Azharī al-Fayyūmī on fol. 1a and 8b.
  • -  Paper: yellowed cream, watermark of Venetian papermaker Andrea Galvani (d. 1855), in good condition, leaves loose from binding. Text of al-Yāsamīnīyah in red, with commentary in black ink. Catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a in later hand.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Purchase ; Mahmud al-Mansuri ; 1945.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . . . الحمد لله الذي أحصى كل شيء عددا وجعل الأموال لمن أعطى وأتقى وصدق بالحسنى ... وبعد، فيقول رحمة ربه محمد بن محمد سبط المارديني، هذا تعليق الأرجوزة المسماة الياسمينية فى علم الجبر والمقابلة مختصر جدا لم يسألني فيه أحد وإنما ولعت به من البطالة والكسل هروبا من الإشتغال والملل ....

Medium

  • 8 leaves (25 lines), bound : paper ; 23 x 16 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA32.I1183 S53 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008401688

Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Muḥammad Aḥmad ʻAbd Al-Raḥīm Al-Azhārī Fayyūmī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Ḥajjāj Ibn Al-Yāsamīn, and Mansuri Collection. al-Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah. [18, 1800] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401688/.

APA citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, B. A. M. I. M., Fayyūmī, M. A. ʻ. A. A., Ibn Al-Yāsamīn, ʻ. A. I. Ḥ. & Mansuri Collection. (1800) al-Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah. [18] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401688/.

MLA citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, et al. al-Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah. [18, 1800] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008401688/>.