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Isma'il bin Ibrahim bin Sharaf al-Maqdisi, Minhat al-mubdi' fi sharh mazumat al-muqni' fi 'ilm al-jabr wa muqabalah, a treatise on algebra, vol. II only
Ottoman Near East, probably Syria, 15th Century or later

18 June 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Isma'il bin Ibrahim bin Sharaf al-Maqdisi, Minhat al-mubdi' fi sharh mazumat al-muqni' fi 'ilm al-jabr wa muqabalah, a treatise on algebra, vol. II only
Ottoman Near East, probably Syria, 15th Century or later

Arabic manuscript on paper, 19 leaves, 21 lines to the page written in neat naskhi script in black ink, verses of poetry and significant words picked out in red, catchwords, some waterstaining and crude repairs mostly restricted to outer borders, colophon states that this commentary was completed in Safar 828/December 1424 by the author Isma'il bin Ibrahim ibn Sharaf al-Maqdisi, modern brown leather binding
175 x 128 mm.

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An ownership inscription on the title page gives the name of Maryam bint 'Abdullah bin 'Abdul-Rahman al-Halabi. It is very rare to find a female ownership inscription in an Arabic manuscript.

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