Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 33

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6487

Shelfmark:

MS Or 33

Title:

Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb

Author:

ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621

Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

between 1650 and 1843?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic with some Persian marginalia

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 30 foliated leaves : paper, illustrations ; 245 x 160 (145 x 97) mm, bound to 250 x 175 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from preface (f. 2r).
Layout: 11 long lines; extensive marginalia and interlinear comments on the first 16 folios; catchwords on verso, lower left.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.
Decoration: Headings in red; tables (f. 3r-4r, 7v-8r, 9v, 10v) and geometrical diagrams (f. 15r/v, 18r-19r, 20v, 29r) in red and black.
Origin: The colophon is taped over (f. 30r); an owner's stamp with the name Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān and the date A.H. 1258 is visible on f. 1r.
Shelfmark: MS Or 33.
Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān (owner's stamp f. 1r).

Keyword:

tables (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

diagrams

manuscripts (documents)

half covers

Arithmetic

Manuscripts, Arabic

New York (State)--New York

Mathematics, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13604105

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604105_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library