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

Title

Khulāṣat al-handasah.
خلاصة الهندسة

Authors

• Raz̤avī, Mīr Ghulām Ḥusayn
  رضوى، مير غلام حسين

Other related names

• Muḥammad Raḥīm Tājir-i Kirmānī, patron
  محمد رحيم تاجر کرمانى,
• Bahadur Shah, S, bookseller
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 27
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15309767
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237689973
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_027.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15309767

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17-- or 18--

Place

India

Summary

Copy of a work on simple arithmetic for merchants; calculations are shown; some poetry verses also included.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (p. 8).
   

Extent

151 leaves : 199 x 121 (118 x 79) mm, bound to 203 x 124 mm

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in 11 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Sold by S. Bahadur Shah, Dealer in Curiosities, Mochi Gate Lahore (note pasted to outside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (stamp, p. [152])
   

Subjects topical

• India--Commerce--Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Business mathematics--Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Booksellers' labels (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

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