Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	MS ARAB/1
Title	Mohammed Ibn Al-Hussain Treatise
Date	17th century
Description	Manuscript volume, 17th century, containing: Mohammed Ibn Al-Hussain Karkhi, Kitab al-kafi fi 'ilm al-hisab wa-'ilm al-misahah wa-al-khawafi (Treatise on arithmetic, geometry, land surveying etc)
Extent	1 volume containing 240 pages
CustodialHistory	The manuscript formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. Formerly Graves 2342.
Acquisition	Graves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related Material	University College London holds other Arabic manuscripts (Ref: MS ARAB): five other Arabic manuscripts, including one other (containing treatises on algebra) from the Graves collection, and others formerly belonging to Sandford Arthur Strong.
FindingAids	Collection level description.
PublnNote	Mentioned briefly in J D Pearson, Oriental Manuscript Collections in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland (Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1954).

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