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![A compilation including two works by Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali bin Muhammad al-Qarshi al-Basti al-Andalusi al-Qalsadi, firstly Sharh kitab al-Dharuri fi 'ilm hisab wa qismat al-mawarith, the essentials of mathematics and the division of inheritances; secondly, Bighyat al-mubtadi' wa ghinyat al-muntahi Andalusia, copied at Imm al-Ghazawat, dated Saturday 26th Ramadan 1126/5th October 1714, and 29th Ramadan 1[1]33/24th July 1721 respectively(2) image 1](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2013-05%2F01%2F94494809-2-1.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
![A compilation including two works by Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali bin Muhammad al-Qarshi al-Basti al-Andalusi al-Qalsadi, firstly Sharh kitab al-Dharuri fi 'ilm hisab wa qismat al-mawarith, the essentials of mathematics and the division of inheritances; secondly, Bighyat al-mubtadi' wa ghinyat al-muntahi Andalusia, copied at Imm al-Ghazawat, dated Saturday 26th Ramadan 1126/5th October 1714, and 29th Ramadan 1[1]33/24th July 1721 respectively(2) image 2](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2013-05%2F01%2F94494809-2-2.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
Lot 170•
A compilation including two works by Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali bin Muhammad al-Qarshi al-Basti al-Andalusi al-Qalsadi, firstly Sharh kitab al-Dharuri fi 'ilm hisab wa qismat al-mawarith, the essentials of mathematics and the division of inheritances; secondly, Bighyat al-mubtadi' wa ghinyat al-muntahi Andalusia, copied at Imm al-Ghazawat, dated Saturday 26th Ramadan 1126/5th October 1714, and 29th Ramadan 1[1]33/24th July 1721 respectively(2)
18 June 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£800 - £1,200
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A compilation including two works by Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali bin Muhammad al-Qarshi al-Basti al-Andalusi al-Qalsadi, firstly Sharh kitab al-Dharuri fi 'ilm hisab wa qismat al-mawarith, the essentials of mathematics and the division of inheritances; secondly, Bighyat al-mubtadi' wa ghinyat al-muntahi
Andalusia, copied at Imm al-Ghazawat, dated Saturday 26th Ramadan 1126/5th October 1714, and 29th Ramadan 1[1]33/24th July 1721 respectively
Andalusia, copied at Imm al-Ghazawat, dated Saturday 26th Ramadan 1126/5th October 1714, and 29th Ramadan 1[1]33/24th July 1721 respectively
Arabic manuscript on paper, 53 leaves, approximately 27 lines to the page written in maghribi script in brown ink in more than one hand, catchwords, title, significant sentences and words written in bolder script or picked out in red and green, numerous diagrams, corners rather rubbed, some waterstaining restricted to outer margins, later brown morocco with stamped central medallions, 205 x 149 mm.; and a compilation of various works including Mukhtasar sirat Rasul Allah (Life of the Prophet) and on hadith (Sayings of the Prophet), North Africa, 18th Century (one dated AH 1146/AD 1733-34), Arabic manuscript on paper, 21 leaves, text written in maghribi script in brown ink in more than one hand, edges frayed, browned, waterstaining, brown morocco with paper covers, stained and worn
196 x 130 mm.(2)
196 x 130 mm.(2)
Footnotes
The author of part of this work is the same as lot [94494809 / 15]. The first title, Sharh Kitab al-Dhururi fi 'ilm hisab wa qismat al-mawarith, is a treatise on arithmetic and inheritance. It is known that al-Qalasadi wrote a commentary on a treatise on inheritance by Ibn Sharran which could be related to this manuscript. For this author see B. A. Rosenfeld & E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers & Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th–19th C.), Istanbul 2003, p. 291, no. 865; also Brockelmann, GAL, II, 343-344; Suppl. II, 378-379.