Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
- Date:
- 1631/1631
- Description:
- (1) Anonymous, Untitled treatise on mathematics (ff. 2-14);(2) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (جمشيد الكاشي), Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb(مفتاح الحساب; ff. 15-122).Codex; ff. ix+123+ixMaterial: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 240 x 135 mm leaf [150 x 75 mm written]Foliation: India Office Library foliation in pencilRuling: Misṭarah; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cmScript: Nasta‘līq; the scribe of ff. 2v-14v is Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mirzā Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh Kāshānī (محمد أمين بن مرزا محمد فضل الله كاشاني; see f. 14v, lines 19-21)Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and diagrams in redBinding: Red leather binding, blind-tooled with stamped medallions and pendants, corner pieces and cartouche all of which contain inscriptions; leather doublures and first flyleaf marbled at front and back; bound in Seringapatam (Srirangapatna) at library of Tīpū Sulṭān (ٹیپو سلطان) of Mysore (reg. 1782-1799) (see Stewart, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Library of the Late Tippoo Sultan of Mysore. To which are Prefixed, Memoirs of Hyder Aly Khan, and his Son Tippoo Sultan [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1809], p. v)Condition: Minor insect damageMarginalia: Few by more than one handSeal: ff. 1r and 122v
- Language:
- Arabic
Persian - Type:
- Manuscript
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. ix+123+ix
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100040497165.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100040497165.0x000001_en
IO Islamic 1039 - Is part of:
- British Library: Oriental Manuscripts