Kitāb Mufīd al-ḥiṣāb : manuscript, 1910

Written surface: 9.5 x 18.8 cm, 25 lines per page, in clear naskhi script in black ink, on beige paper, with headings, keywords, and markings in red. Text: folios: 1b – 36a

The title "Kitāb Mufīd al-ḥiṣāb" [The Book of Mathematical Assistant] appears at the end of the manuscript. At the beginning, the manuscript was called "Kitāb fī al-ʻadad al-Hindī" [A book on Indian numerals].

Arab authors always considered, and correctly so, the Arabic numerals as coming from India.

Recent cloth, in excellent shape. Paper size: 19 x 25.6 cm.

Anonymous. No reference can be found for this manuscript, probably a unique one.

According to the colophon, copy completed on 28 Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1328 AH [July 7, 1910 AD].

MS Arab 432. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

In Arabic.