ART OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD AND INDIA
Lot 9:
Description
An early witness to Islamic mathematical scholarship, authored by the esteemed scholar Abu Bakr bin Abaad and copied in the year 846 AH (1442 CE) at the Al-Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. The work, titled Kitab al-Tariqah fi ‘Ilm al-Hisab (“The Book of Method in the Science of Arithmetic”), presents a comprehensive approach to arithmetic operations and number theory, grounded in classical Islamic science and intended for scholarly instruction.
The manuscript is preserved in a brown leather binding with a subtle blind-stamped central medallion. The interior bears all the hallmarks of 15th-century manuscript production: dense black ink-script with rubrication in red, composed in an elegant, slightly angular Maghribi-style or Western-influenced naskh.
Opening pages include colophonic notes referencing the author’s name and the sacred site of transcription. The text proceeds in continuous lines without major illustration, relying instead on structured prose and red-inked emphasis to mark formulas, headings, or procedural terms.
20 x 15.5cm
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