"Arithmetic Primer
This commentary by the eighteenth-century scholar al-Rasmuki explains a work by al-Samlali the medieval mathematician. Using charts and examples of problems, the commentator demonstrates the rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. He also discusses the history and development of mathematics. The text was used extensively by students in Timbuktu and North Africa."

There is something melancholy about beautifully inscribed texts on learned subjects, used by scholars in a place that is now referenced by us (in general) as meaning some minute blot on the corner of the back end of beyond.

Thanks for sharing the beautiful texts.