Anonymous treatise on mathematics

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Anonymous and untitled treatise on mathematics containing numerous diagrams.

The copy was completed at Ajmer (أجمير) on Tuesday 10 Rabī‘ I 1041/7 October 1631 by Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mirzā Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh Kāshānī (محمد أمين بن مرزا محمد فضل الله كاشاني; see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 14v, lines 15-21 and second line of Persian inscription by hand of scribe to left of colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , transcribed below).

Contents:

Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-3):

بدانکه اهل این صناعت را در اخراج مسایل طریقهای بسیار است وقانونهای درست که متقدمان بدست

آورده اند چون اربعه مناسب وطریق جبر ومقابله وطریق خطایی ومانند این ...

Ends (f. 14v, lines 13-14):

... این قدر هدایت که کردیم کفایت

باشد در چگونگی بیرون کردن مسایل اکنون برین اختصار کردیم تا دراز نگردد والسلم

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 14v, lines 15-21):

تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة في يوم الثلثاء عاشر شهر ربيع الأول

سنة إحدى وأربعين ألف من الهجرة

النبوية المصطفوية على

يد العبد الضعيف

محمد أمين بن مرزا

محمد فضل الله

كاشاني

Inscription to right of colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (by hand of scribe):

شبهای فقر وفنا از ما و بخت و ملک وجاه از تو

چو دنیا را بقائی نیست خواه از ما وخواه از تو

Inscription to left of colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (by hand of scribe):

در محلی که انقلاب روزگار این فقیر کم بضاعت را

از نیسانی ما ببلده اجمیر انداخته بود بر سبیل استعجال نوشته شد

Extent and format

Ff. 2v-14v

It is part of

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

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Ref: IO Islamic 1039

Written in

Persian and Farsi in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v

History of this record

Date(s)

Rabī‘ I 1041 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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

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