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

Title

Kitāb Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ ...
كتاب تلخيص المفتاح

Authors

• Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʻūd, -approximately 1436
  كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود،
• Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, -1355?
  ايجي، عضد الدين عبد الرحمن بن احمد،
• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجي، علي بن محمد،
• 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 310
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13718689
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085013809
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_310.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13718689

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic and Persian

Origin

Date

1574-1577

Place

Iran?

Summary

Set of 4 works copied together two in Arabic, two in Persian. The handwriting changes on f. 29v, near the beginning of the third work.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title of first work from introduction (f. 1v); title of second work from colophon (f. 27r); title of third work from title on flyleaf (flyleaf 6 recto); title of fourth work from colophon (f. 100r).
   

Extent

100 leaves : 185 x 85 (115 x 45) mm, bound to 185 x 90 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard; leather is cracked with parts of spine and corner missing. Blind stamped central cartouche with blind tooled frame. Marbled paper doublure.

Layout

12-18 lines per page. Catchwords on versos, lower left.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; diagrams and tables in red and black.

Script

Written in naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplates inside front and back covers).
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Semantics--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts
• Tables (documents)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ
• fol. 26v — al-Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah.
• fol. 27v — al-Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah
• fol. 66v — Risālat al-ḥisāb

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1v — Owner's stamp
• fol. 1v — Owner's stamp
• fol. 6v — Table
• fol. 7v — Table
• fol. 9r — Table
• fol. 10r — Table
• fol. 12r — Table
• fol. 13r — Table
• fol. 13v — Table
• fol. 16r — Table
• fol. 17v — Table
• fol. 20r — Diagrams
• fol. 20v — Diagrams
• fol. 22r — Table
• fol. 22v — Table
• fol. 28r — Diagrams
• fol. 28v — Diagrams
• fol. 30v — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 38v — Diagrams
• fol. 40r — Diagram
• fol. 40v — Diagrams
• fol. 45r — Diagram
• fol. 46v — Diagram
• fol. 49v — Diagrams
• fol. 54r — Diagram
• fol. 54v — Diagram
• fol. 55v — Diagram
• fol. 56r — Diagram
• fol. 63v — Diagram
• fol. 70r — Table
• fol. 71v — Tables
• fol. 72r — Tables
• fol. 73v — Tables
• fol. 74r — Tables
• fol. 74v — Tables
• fol. 75r — Tables
• fol. 75v — Tables
• fol. 76r — Tables
• fol. 76v — Tables
• fol. 77r — Tables
• fol. 85r — Table
• fol. 85v — Tables
• fol. 87r — Table
• fol. 87v — Table
• fol. 89v — Table
• fol. 91r — Tables
• fol. 92v — Table
• fol. 95v — Table
• fol. 96r — Diagrams
• fol. 96v — Diagrams
• fol. 97r — Diagrams
• fol. 98v — Diagrams
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"