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IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v

Record Id:
040-003366953
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003366952
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100048818589.0x000001
Format:
ISAD(G)
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 second line of Persian inscription by hand of scribe to left of colophon, 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 (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 (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 (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

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003366952
040-003366953
Is part of:
IO Islamic 1039 : Anonymous treatise on mathematicsandMiftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحسابKāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي،…

 

IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v : Anonymous treatise on mathematics
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032-003366952[0001]/040-003366953
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:

Ff. 2v-14v

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Languages:
Farsi
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1631
End Date:
1631
Date Range:
Rabī‘ I 1041
Calendar:
Hijri qamari
Era:
AH
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Finding Aids:
  • Loth, Otto, 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 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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