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 states, in two distinct passages, that its author,, was the first Mussulman who had ever written on the solution of problems by the rules of completion and reduction. Two marginal notes in the Oxford manuscript—from which the text of the present edition is taken—and an anonymous Arabic writer, whose Bibliotheca Philosophorum is frequently quoted by, likewise maintain that this production of was the first work written on the subject by a Mohammedan.