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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

• bibid: 13535814
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1053902029
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_036.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13535814

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1851

Place

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 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Islamic binding. Full brown leather with blind tooling.

Layout

15 long lines with some geometrical figures and formulas written vertically in between the text.

Decoration

Overlines, headings, and textual divisions in red. Geometrical diagrams in black.

Script

Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

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

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Badīʿ al-ḥisāb

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