Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود

Content

• (1) Anonymous, Untitled treatise on mathematics (ff. 2-14);
• (2) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (جمشيد الكاشي), Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (مفتاح الحساب; ff. 15-122).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ix+123+ix

It is grouped into

Anonymous treatise on mathematics

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Ref: IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v

Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود

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Ref: IO Islamic 1039, ff 15v-122r

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 240 x 135 mm leaf [150 x 75 mm written]

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: Misṭarah ; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm

Script: 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 red

Binding: 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 damage

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand

Seal: ff. 1r and 122v

Written in

Arabic, Persian and Farsi in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IO Islamic 1039

History of this record

Date(s)

1041 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Context of creation

Ajmer

Provenance

• East India Company Library, its seal (ff. 1r and 122v);
• ‘Alī ibn (?) ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ḥasan-‘Alī (علي بن [؟] عبد الله ابن حسنعلي): his inscription, dated Ṣafar 1179/July-August 1765 (ff. 2r and 51r).

Immediate source of acquisition

From the library at Seringapatam (Srirangapatna) of Tīpū Sulṭān (ٹیپو سلطان), Nawwāb An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Fatḥ ‘Alī Khān (نواب فتح علي خان) of Mysore (reg. 1782-1799), transferred to Fort William College, Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1799, then deposited at 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. in 1806 and 1937.

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 756, p. 220
• Stewart, Charles, 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. 100, nos. vi and vii

Subjects

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800

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Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, IO Islamic 1039, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100040497165.0x000001> [accessed 11 January 2025]

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