Three texts on mathematics

Content

Contents:

(1) Anonymous treatise on multiplication (ff. 1r-2v);

(2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (خلاصة الحساب; preface only, f. 4r);

(3) Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī (لطف الله بن أحمد المهندس اللهوري), Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (شرح خلاصة الحساب; ff. 4v-69r).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. v+69+ii

It is grouped into

Anonymous treatise on multiplication

4 images

Ref: IO Islamic 1362, ff 1r-2v

Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين

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Ref: IO Islamic 1362, f 4r

Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī, Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad المهندس اللهوري، لطف الله بن أحمد

130 images

Ref: IO Islamic 1362, ff 4v-69r

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 195 x 125 mm leaf [160 x 95 mm written (ff. 1r-2v), 100 x 57 mm written (ff. 4r-69r)]

Foliation: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library foliation in pencil

Ruling: no ruling visibile, 23 lines per page, vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm (ff. 1r-2v); Misṭarah , 13 lines per page, vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm, (ff. 4r-69r)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings, figures and diagrams in red

Decoration: None

Binding: Half-leather India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. binding; boards covered with marbled paper

Condition: Minor insect damage worse towards front of volume, spine missing, dark tidemark in gutter margin towards back of volume

Marginalia: Many

Seals: ff. 4r and 69v

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IO Islamic 1362

History of this record

Date(s)

18th century (CE, Gregorian)

Provenance

East India Company Library: its seal (ff. 4r and 69v)

Immediate source of acquisition

Gaikwar (Gaekwad)

Related material

Finding aids

Loth, Otto, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. (London: Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 761, p. 221

Subjects

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800

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