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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IO Islamic 1039

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on mathematics
Scope & Content:: 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, f. 14v, lines 15-21 and se...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Rabī‘ I 1041
Extent:: Ff. 2v-14v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039, ff 15v-122r
Title:: Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Compendium of mathematics by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (الكاشاني, see f. 15v, line 5). The text is known by both the short title Key to Calculation (مفتاح الحساب, see f. 16v, line 3) and the lo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1041
Extent:: Ff. 15v-122r

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