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Reference Number MS ARAB/5
TitleBahjat al-tullab wa-rawdat al-albab (Treatise on Algebra)
Dateunknown
DescriptionMalik al-Dimashqi, Uthman ibn 'Ala' al-Din ibn Yunus ibn Muhammad / Bahjat al-tullab wa-rawdat al-albab fi 'ilm al-hisab / A treatise on Algebra by Ibn il Malik of Damascus.

Bound with MS ARAB/6, another treatise on algebra, in an Islamic binding of stamped leather. Several extra pages and notes have been tipped-in.
Extent1 volume
CustodialHistoryBookplate 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. Cutting from an auction catalogue describing this item pasted at the rear of the volume.
AcquisitionGraves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.
AccessStatusOpen
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