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Title

Penn Library's LJS 481 - [Ḥaṭṭ al-niqāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb]. (Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

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Date of this Version

3-15-2023

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 481, a commentary on the summary of arithmetical operations by the late 13th- and early 14th-century scholar Ibn al-Bannāʼ. Demonstrates with examples the calculation of sums involving fractional numbers and square roots. Extensive marginal notes on a few leaves (p. 20-35). The first leaf is missing and the text ends abruptly. Several leaves have restored outer margins. Pages 189-194 missing text because of conservation after water damage.

Written in northern Africa, probably Morocco, in the 15th or 16th century.

Record on Franklin, with link to a digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959542723503681

Record on Internet Archive, with a link to PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs481

Link to eBook

https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/33/

Link to OPENN

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs481.html

Keywords

Arithmetic, Ibn al-Bannāʾ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 1256?-1321? Talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb, Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800, Mathematics Arab -- Early works to 1800, Mathematics Arab, Manuscripts Arabic, Manuscripts Arabic, Codices, Commentaries, Early works

Disciplines

Arabic Language and Literature | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Mathematics

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2023, March 15). Penn Library's LJS 481 - [Ḥaṭṭ al-niqāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb]. (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/221