Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود [‎xi-v] (275/290)

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

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

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