Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī li-manẓūmāt Ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah al-musammá bi-Fatḥ al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ هذا شرح شيخ الاسلام زكريا الانصاري لمنظومات لابن الهائم في علم الجبر و المقابلة المسمى بفتح المبدع في شرح المقنع
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Title
- Hādhā Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī li-manẓūmāt Ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah al-musammá bi-Fatḥ al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ
Other Title
- هذا شرح شيخ الاسلام زكريا الانصاري لمنظومات لابن الهائم في علم الجبر و المقابلة المسمى بفتح المبدع في شرح المقنع
Summary
- This work is a commentary on a versified, 59-line introduction to algebra, entitled Al-Muqni' fī al-jabr wa al-muqābila, by the prolific and influential mathematician, jurist, and man of letters Abū al-'Abbās Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn 'Alī al-Maqdisī al-Shāfi'ī, known as Ibn al-Hā'im (circa 1356-1412 [circa 753-815 AH]). It clarifies the nomenclature and explains the basic concepts of algebra, and provides succinct examples. The manuscript, completed on Thursday night, 8 Sha'bān 1305 AH (March 21, 1888), is in the hand of Tāhā ibn Yūsuf. World Digital Library.
Names
- Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1423-approximately 1520
- Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
- Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
- Yūsuf, Ṭāhā, scribe
- Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- 8 Shaʻbān 1305 [20 April 1888].
Headings
- - Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
- - Algebra--Early works to 1800
- - Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
- - Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
Notes
- - [Egypt?]
- - Binding: old decorated cardboard.
- - Fol. 71a - 92a.
- - Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-738.
- - Ms.
- - Nastaʻliq script; 19 lines in written area, 14 x 8 cm.
- - Paper: yellowed cream, in good condition but split from spine. Text of al-Muqniʻ in red, with exposition in black; text framed by double red line. Occasional diacritical marks; catchwords at bottom of rectos.
- - Transcribed by Ṭāḥā ibn Yūsuf and finished on 8 Shaʻbān, 1305 AH.
- - With: Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Sibṭ al-Māridīnī ʻalá al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Janājī.
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
- - Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
- - Incipit: الحمد لله الذي جبر قلوب العلماء بإمداد جذره المتيد، وفتح لهم باب استخراج المجهول من المعلوم الرزين ... وبعد فإن المقنع المنظوم على بحر الطويل فى علم الجبر والمقابلة للإمام المحقق والبحر المدقق أبى العباس شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد بن على الشهير بابن الهائم الشافعي طيب الله ثراه وجعل الجنة مأواه لما كان من أبدع كتاب فى الجبر نظم وأجمع موضوع فيه على مقدار حجمه رقم ، طلب منى بعض الأعزة على من الفضلاء المترددين إلي أن أضع عليه شرحا يحل ألفاظه ويبين مراده ويقيد مطلقه ويفتح مغلقه ....
Medium
- 22 leaves (19 lines), bound : paper ; 23 x 16 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- QA154.8 .J36 1888
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2008401702
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Contributor
- Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad
- Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad
- Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
- Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
- Yūsuf, Ṭāhā