MS Or 36 Badīʻ al-ḥisāb. / بدیع الحساب
Title
Badīʻ al-ḥisāb.بدیع الحساب
Authors
- Rajab ʻAlī Beg
رجب علی بیگ
Other related names
- Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
Call number
MS Or 36(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University.Language
PersianOrigin
Copy completed on 25 April 1851; the corresponding date in Vikram Samvat, 1908, is also given (f. 76v).
- Date
- 1851
- Place
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Lahore
Summary
Manual of arithmetic and geometry for merchants' use including how to calculate the area of a ship. According to the compiler, the work includes excerpts from the following texts: Muntakhab al-ḥisāb, Līlāvatī, and Dastūr al-ʻamal.
Notes
- Manuscript codex.
- Title from introduction (f. 2r).
- Inserted: A letter written by David Eugene Smith on behalf of the American Mathematical Society (founded 1888) asking for contributions to the library of the Society laid in (between f. 5v and 6r). The back of the letter holds a handwritten long division problem, copied from f. 5v, with an explanation by Smith.
Extent
[1], 76, [2] foliated leaves : 258 x 172 (185 x 90) mm, bound to 263 x 176 mmSupport
PaperBinding
Islamic binding. Full brown leather with blind tooling.Layout
Decoration
Overlines, headings, and textual divisions in red. Geometrical diagrams in black.
Script
Provenance
- Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
Subjects topical
- Arithmetic
- Geometry
- Manuscripts, Persian
Genres
- Codices
- Diagrams
- Manuals (instructional materials)
- Islamic bindings (Binding)
- Insertions (Provenance)
- Manuscripts
Licenses
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- Text
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- URL
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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- Text
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- URL
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Decorations
- fol. 3v — Table
- fol. 4r — Table
- fol. 4v — Table
- fol. 5r — Table
- fol. 13v — Diagram
- fol. 14r — Diagram
- fol. 14v — Diagram
- fol. 15r — Diagram
- fol. 16r — Diagram
- fol. 16v — Diagram
- fol. 17r — Diagram
- fol. 18r — Diagram
- fol. 19v — Diagram
- fol. 20v — Diagram
- fol. 25v — Diagram
- fol. 26r — Diagram
- fol. 26v — Diagram
- fol. 27r — Diagram
- fol. 27v — Diagram
- fol. 28r — Diagram
- fol. 28v — Diagram
- fol. 29r — Diagram
- fol. 29v — Diagram
- fol. 30r — Diagram
- fol. 31v — Diagram
- fol. 34r — Table
- fol. 34v — Table
- fol. 45v — Table
- fol. 50v — Table
- fol. 58v — Table
- fol. 59r — Table
- fol. 59v — Table
- fol. 60r — Table
- fol. 60v — Table
- fol. 61r — Table
- fol. 64v — Diagram
- fol. 65r — Diagram
- fol. 65r — Table
- fol. 71v — Table
- fol. 72r — Table
- fol. 72v — Table
- fol. 74r — Table
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