Mohammed Ibn Al-Hussain Treatise

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ARAB 1
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Mohammed Ibn Al-Hussain Treatise
Date(s)	: 17th century
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume containing 240 pages
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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)

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Arabic - Nashk character.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

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.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Graves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.

Allied Materials

Related material:

University College London holds other Oriental manuscripts (Ref: MS ORIENTAL): five other Arabic manuscripts, including one other (containing treatises on algebra) from the Graves collection, and others formerly belonging to Sandford Arthur Strong; and two Persian manuscripts (one of them an anatomical treatise).

Publication note:

Oriental manuscripts at University College London Special Collections are mentioned briefly in J D Pearson, Oriental Manuscript Collections in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland (Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1954).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Nov 2001