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IO Islamic 1748
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Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب
‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Very popular textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text was originally completed in Ṣafar 1004/October 1595, and the present copy was completed at noon on a Saturday in Rabīʿ II 1046/September-October 1636 by the scribe Ghulām Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jāʾī (غلام محمد عبد القدر الجائي, see authorial colophon, f. 26v, lines 14-15 and scribal colophon, f. 26v, lines 17-18, transcribed below).
The preface of the present copy contains a dedication to a sultan called ''Sultan, son of the Sultan, son of the Sultan, Abū al-Ghālib Sulṭān Ḥasan Bahādur Khān'' (السلطان ابن السلطان ابن السلطان أبي الغالب سلطان حسن بهادر خان, f. 2r, lines 4-5), with an interlinear note correcting ''Ḥasan'' to ''Ḥamzah'' (حمزة). Loth (A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office London: Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877, item 758, p. 220) identifies the dedicatee with Amīr Hamzah (أمير حمزة, reg. 1565/66-1586), son of Muḥammad Khudābandah Ṣafavī (محمد خدابنده صفوى, reg. 1578-1587), son of Shāh Ṭahmāsp I (شاه طهماسپ, reg. 1514-76). This dedication is also found in at least one other copy in which the name is given as Sulṭān Ḥamzah Bahādur Khān (سلطان حمزة بهادر خان; see Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, vol. 22: Science Patna: Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, 1970-2007, no. 2421, p. 16). The identity of the individual named in the colophon is not clear, however, since Amīr Hamzah had been murdered nine years prior to the completion of the text, and this dedication is not found in other copies.
The treatise consists of an introduction (مقدمة), nine chapters (أبواب), and a conclusion (خاتمة). Each chapter is subdivided into sections (فصول), in some cases preceded by one or more introductions (مقدمة).
- Introduction (مقدمة, ff. 2r-2v);
- Chapter One: Calculation with Integers (الباب الأول في حساب الصحاح, ff. 2v-9v);
- Chapter Two: Calculation with Fractions (الباب الثاني في حساب الكسور, ff. 9v-13r);
- Chapter Three: Deriving Unknowns by Means of the Four Proportions (الباب الثالث في استخراج المجهولات بالأربعة المتناسبة, ff. 13r-13v);
- Chapter Four: Deriving Unknowns by Means of Calculating the Two Errors (الباب الرابع في استخراج المجهولات بحساب الخطائين, ff. 13v-14r);
- Chapter Five: Deriving Unknowns by Means of Operating with the Opposite (الباب الخامس في استخراج المجهولات بالعمل بالعكس, ff. 14r-14v);
- Chapter Six: On Mensuration (الباب السادس في المساحة, ff. 14v-17v);
- Chapter Seven: What Follows Mensuration, Such as the Levelling of Land for Portions of Waterways and Knowing the Altitude of Heights, the Breadth of Rivers and the Depths of Wells (الباب السابع فيما يتبع المساحات من وزن الأرض لأجزاء القنوات ومعرفة ارتفاع المرتفعات وعروض الأنهار وأعماق الآبار, ff. 17v-19r);
- Chapter Eight: Deriving Unknowns by Way of Algebra and Muqābalah (الباب الثامن في استخراج المجهولات بطريق الجبر والمقابلة, ff. 19r-21v);
- Chapter Nine: The Noble Rules and Helpful Notes That are Obligatory and Indispensable for Accountants (الباب التاسع في قواعد شريفة وفوائد لطيفة لا بد للمحاسب منها ولا غناء عنها, ff. 21v-26r);
- Conclusion (خاتمة, f. 26r).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-3):
نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجمع نعمه عدد ولا ينتهي تضاعف قسمه إلى أمد
ونصلي على سيّدنا محمد النبي المجتبي وعترته سيما الأربعة
المتناسبة أصحاب العبا وبعد...
Ends (f. 26v, lines 8-13):
... فاعرف قدرها ولا ترخص مهرها وأمنعها
عمن ليس أهلها ولا تزفه إلا إلى الحريص على أن يكون بعلها
ولا تبذلها لكثيف الطبع من الطالب لئلا تكون معلقًا
للدرر في أعناق الكلاب فإن كثيرًا من مطالبها حري
بالصيانة والكتمان حقيق بالاستتار عن أكثر أهل هذا الزمان
واحفظ وصيتي إليك والله حفيظ عليك ...
Authorial colophon (f. 26v, lines 13-15):
... تمت
الرسالة بعون الله الملك العلي في شهر صفر ختم الله بالخير
سنة ١٠٠٤
Scribal colophon (f. 26v, lines 16-18):
تمت
النسخة المسماة بخلاصة الحساب في يد أحقر الناس غلام محمد عبد القادر الجائي
يوم السبت شهر ربيع الثاني سنة ١٠٤٦ وقت الظهر غفر وعفي عنه
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Codex; ff. iv+34+ii
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1636
- End Date:
- 1636
- Date Range:
- Rabīʿ II 1046
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
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- AH
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 223 x 131mm leaf 128 x 70mm written
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. Margins and parts of folios containing text cut from original codex now kept with the volume as foldouts or inserts numbered as ff. 2a, 2b, 10a, 14a, 19a, 27a and 27b.
Ruling: Misṭarah; between 13-19 lines per page; vertical spacing varies between 11-14 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nastaʿlīq; the scribe is Ghulām Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jāʾī (غلام محمد عبد القادر الجائي, see colophon, f. 26v, line 17)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: None
Binding: India Office half-leather binding with boards marbled in grey and blue
Condition: Tidemarks around edges and gutter throughout; margins trimmed and restored with paper; folios guarded throughout; some folios loose or inserted as fold-outs (see Foliation, above)
Marginalia: Dense interlinear and marginal annotations throughout
Seals: ff. 1r and 26v
- Custodial History:
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- India Office Library: its stamp (ff. iii-r, 1r and 26v)
- ʿIṣmat al-Din (عصمة الدين): his partially-illegible seal (ff. 1r and 26v)
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From the library at Seringapatam (Srirangapatna) of Tīpū Sulṭān (ٹیپو سلطان), Nawwāb Fatḥ ‘Alī Khān (نواب فتح علي خان) of Mysore (reg. 1782-99), transferred to Fort William College, Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1799, then deposited at the India Office in 1806 and 1937
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Editions:
- ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (Tabriz?: Maṭba‘ Muḥammad Zuyūr, 1262)
- ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb: al-khulāṣat fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb wa al-jabr wa al-muqābilah; nuskhah-i taṣḥīh shudah hamrāh bā matn-i chāp-i sangī (Qum: Majma‘-i Z̲akhā’ir-i Islāmī, 2011)
- ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāsat al-ḥisāb, ma‘a taḥshīyah jadīdah kāfīyah li-ḥall al-ṣi‘āb wa-ḍamīmah lā’iqah bi-taḥ‘ṣīl al-nāzil wa-min al-judhūr wa-al-ki‘āb (Diyūband: Kutubʹkhānah-i Raḥīmīyah, 1974)
- ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dī̄n Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Rīyāḍīyāt (Mathematical Works), ed. by G. Shawky (Aleppo: Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, 1976), pp. 31-163
Edition and German translation:
- ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Essenz der rechenkunst von Mohammed Beha-eddin ben Alhossain aus Amul, arabisch und deutsch , ed. and trans. by G. H. F. Nesselmann (Berlin, 1843)
Study:
- Hashemipour, Behnaz, ''‘Āmilī: Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī'', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 42-43
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