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LJS 293 - Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, active 12th century - [Kitāb al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī sanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār]
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Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection: LJS 293 - Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, active 12th century - [Kitāb al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī sanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār]
Permanent Link: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4819340
Author:
Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, active 12th century.
Title:
[Kitāb al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī sanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār] [manuscript].
Origin:
[Baghdad], A.H. 590 (1194)
Physical description:
86 leaves : paper ; 232 x 165 (164 x 114) mm. bound to 234 x 175 mm.
Summary:
Near-contemporary copy of the first volume of a 12th-century treatise on arithmetic and algebra, with some marginal notes.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, with the assistance of Mehmet Arikan.
Collation: Paper, i + 86 + i; 1⁸ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁶. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh script in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn al-Mujill al-Baghdādī (Mehmet Arikan).
Binding: Early calf over paper boards, blind-stamped and rolled.
Origin: Written in Baghdad, dated A.H. Safar 590 (Jan.-Feb. 1194, f. 86r).
Cite as:
UPenn LJS 293.
Manuscript location:
Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania LJS 293
 
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