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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb sharḥ Nuzhat fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb كتاب شرح نزهة في علم الحساب /

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Title

  • Kitāb sharḥ Nuzhat fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb

Other Title

  • كتاب شرح نزهة في علم الحساب /

Summary

  • Manuscript is a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's book Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār, which itself represents the author's abridgement of his work Murshidat al-tālib illá asnaʼ al-maṭālib.
  • This 18th-century manuscript offers a clear example of the continued use in the Islamic world of the scientific commentary well after the end of Middle Ages, the period most associated with Arabic scientific achievement and this literary form. In this case, the treatise commented upon is the Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī 'ilm al-ghubār (The excursion of the observer in the science of numerals), which was itself an abridgment by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farāḍī ibn al-Hā'im (around 1356-1412) of his own mathematical treatise entitled Murshid al-ṭālib ilā asnā' al-maṭālib (A student guide to the summit of learning). The original work, the abridgement, and the commentary all have an explicit didactic aim. The discussion of numerals and the treatment of the four arithmetical operations are presented in an incremental and extremely clear way. Abridgments, commentaries, and supercommentaries (commentaries on commentaries) all were tools for clarifying complex mathematical problems to students in an accessible and detailed form. The present copy of the Kitāb sharḥ al-nuzha fī 'ilm al-ḥisāb (The book of the explanation of the excursion in the science of calculus) demonstrates very clearly Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Shāfi'ī al-Ġhazzī 's explanatory technique: the passages in red ink preserve the original treatise by Ibn Al-Hā'im, while the text in black ink is the extremely detailed, almost word-by-word, commentary by al-Ġhazzī. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, -1575
  • Azharī, Ḥasan al-Badrī al-Shāfiʼī al-Shādhilī al-Laythī, active 1838, former owner
  • Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Shaʻbān 1134 H [June 1722].

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Binding: Modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.
  • -  Fol. 1a-62b.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-714.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Naskhī script; 23 lines in written area, 15 x 10 cm.
  • -  On title page is the ownership signature of Ḥasan al-Badrī al-Shāfiʼī al-Shādhilī al-Laythī al-Azharī, dated 1254 H [1838], whose name also appears on fol. 62b, dated 1258 H [1842]. There is also a faint ownership stamp on fol. 1a.
  • -  Paper: yellowed cream with watermarks, in moderate condition. Leaves are loose from binding; last two leaves have been repaired; a little termite damage. Red and black ink on title page; text of Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār is in red and the commentary is in black; notes and calculations in a second hand in the margins. Catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم و به ثقتي الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين، الحمد لله الباري النسم العادل فيما قسم العالم بجذر الأصم، الواحد الأحد المتفرد بالقدم ... أما بعد فهذا ما دعت إليه حاجة الطلاب لعلم الحساب، الراغبين في تحقيق معاني الكتاب الموسوم بنزهة النظار في علم الغبار للعلامة أبى العباس شهاب الدين أحمد بن الهايم من شرح كاف ذي بيان شاف يوضح مراده ويتمم مفاده ...

Medium

  • 62 leaves (23 lines), bound : paper ; 21 x 16 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA23 .G39 1722

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008401931

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Ghazzī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim, -1575, Ḥasan Al-Badrī Al-ShāfiʼĪ Al-Shādhilī Al-Laythī Azharī, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Al-HāʼIm, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb sharḥ Nuzhat fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb. [Shaʻbān H June 1722, 1722] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401931/.

APA citation style:

Ghazzī, A. I. Q., Azharī, Ḥ. A. A. A. A., Ibn Al-HāʼIm, A. I. M. & Mansuri Collection. (1722) Kitāb sharḥ Nuzhat fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb. [Shaʻbān H June 1722] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401931/.

MLA citation style:

Ghazzī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim, -1575, et al. Kitāb sharḥ Nuzhat fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb. [Shaʻbān H June 1722, 1722] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008401931/>.