Penn Library's LJS 293 - Kitāb al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī sanʻat ʻamal...] (Video Orientation)
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Medieval Studies
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2018-01-01
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Video orientation to LJS 293, Kitāb al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī sanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār by Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār. Written in Baghdad in A.H. 590 (1194) in Arabic, this manuscript is a near-contemporary copy of the first volume of the Book of demonstration and recollection in the art of dust-board reckoning, a 12th-century treatise on arithmetic and algebra.