Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb. al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah.
خلاصة الحساب. الرسالة المحمدية

Authors

• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621
  عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين،
• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجي، علي بن محمد،

Other related names

• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 290
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13718686
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085013343
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_290.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13718686

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Summary

Two treatises on mathematics, copied together. The second work, al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah, contains only the first maqālah and seems to be the Arabic translation of al-Qūshjī's Persian Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction to each work (f. 2r, 19r).
   

Extent

31 leaves : 190 x 110 (140 x 65) mm, bound to 190 x 110 mm

Foliation

Continuous modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap. Central mandorla of black leather onlay with gold painted outline and floral decoration. Coordinated gold decoration on flap. Gold tooled frame on flap and boards. Silver flecked paper doublure and flyleaves. Spine has been reinforced with black leather.

Layout

27 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red and blue; tables in red. Textblock is border-ruled in gold.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink, pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Onlays (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Khulaṣāt al-ḥisāb
• fol. 18v — Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah

Decorations

• Flap — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"
• fol. 2r — Tables
• fol. 2v — Tables
• fol. 3r — Table
• fol. 4r — Table
• fol. 5r — Table
• fol. 5v — Table
• fol. 8v — Diagrams of geometric shapes
• fol. 11v — Table
• fol. 20r — Table
• fol. 20v — Tables
• fol. 21r — Table
• fol. 21v — Table
• fol. 22v — Table
• fol. 24v — Table
• fol. 25r — Table
• fol. 26r — Empty tables
• fol. 27v — Table
• fol. 28v — Tables
• Flap — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"