Badāʼiʻ al-funūn.
- Holding institution:
- Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Badāʼiʻ al-funūn.
بدائع الفنون - Date:
- 1664
- Description:
- On accounting for merchants, including calculating shorthands to make accounting easier (abjad numbers), which the author calls ʻilm al-siyāq.
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts
Codices
Manuals (instructional materials)
Frame covers
Compound endbands
Secondary sewing (endband techniques)
Markets--Islamic countries--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Manuscripts, Persian - Geographic region:
- India?
- Provenance:
- Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān, dated A.H. 1231? (1816) (owner's stamp on f. 1r).
- Extent:
- 14-15 long lines with alpha-numerical calculations and marginalia; catchwords on versos, lower left.
- Publisher:
- Columbia University.
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 37: Badāʼiʻ al-funūn. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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- MS Or 37
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World