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Manuscript/Mixed Material Taʻlīq ʻalá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr تعليق على الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر

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Title

  • Taʻlīq ʻalá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr

Other Title

  • تعليق على الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر

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 12th-century mathematical poem known as al-Yāsamīnīyya fī 'ilm al-Jabr (The poem by al-Yāsamīn on calculus) from the name of its author, al-Yāsamīn, is one of the most read and commented upon mathematical texts of its time. Its verses have been extensively copied, both in autonomous form and by incorporation into larger commentaries up to the 20th century. The present manuscript preserves an early 20th-century copy of the 15th-century commentary on the Yāsamīnīyya written by 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 grandfather, himself a mathematician. Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, who was active as muwaqqit (timekeeper) at the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo during the last years of the 15th century, is very likely to have composed the text of his commentary with an educational purpose in mind. The commentary deals with the definition of the elements of algebra known at the time (number, root and sequence); the description of the six canonical equations already identified by al-Ḫwārizmī during the 9th century; and the treatment of the algebraic operations of restoration, comparison, and multiplication and division of monomials. The commentary clarifies and expands upon the content of the verses in the older poem. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Yāsīn, Muḥammad ʻAlī, scribe
  • Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, -1204
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 3 Jumādá al-ūlá 1329 H [2 May 1911]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Binding: Cardboard covered with cloth, leather spine.
  • -  Fol.1a to 13a.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-732.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Naskhī script; 19 lines in written area, 16 x 9 cm.
  • -  Paper: yellowed cream, in good condition; leaves loose. Black ink throughout. Catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Transcribed by Muḥammad ʻAlī Yāsīn on 3 Jumādá al-ūlá, 1329 H.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين, قال الشيخ الإمام العلامة سبط المارديني ...

Medium

  • 13 leaves (19 lines), bound : paper ; 25 x 18 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA32.I1183 S53 1911

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008401687

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, Muḥammad ʻAlī Yāsīn, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Ḥajjāj Ibn Al-Yāsamīn, and Mansuri Collection. Taʻlīq ʻalá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr. [3 Jumādá al-ūlá H 2 May 1911, 1911] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401687/.

APA citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, B. A. M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A., Yāsīn, M. ʻ., Ibn Al-Yāsamīn, ʻ. A. I. Ḥ. & Mansuri Collection. (1911) Taʻlīq ʻalá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr. [3 Jumādá al-ūlá H 2 May 1911] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401687/.

MLA citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, et al. Taʻlīq ʻalá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr. [3 Jumādá al-ūlá H 2 May 1911, 1911] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008401687/>.