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

Title

Badāʼiʻ al-funūn.
بدائع الفنون

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 37
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13535822
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1053901906
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_037.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13535822

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1664

Place

India?

Summary

On accounting for merchants, including calculating shorthands to make accounting easier (abjad numbers), which the author calls ʻilm al-siyāq.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 3r).
   

Extent

56 foliated leaves : 236 x 140 (190 x 100) mm, bound to 245 x 145 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Islamic binding. Brown leather frame binding with blind tooling, bright blue paper sides. Outer corners of leather frames create a triangular shape. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

Layout

14-15 long lines with alpha-numerical calculations and marginalia; catchwords on versos, lower left.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān, dated A.H. 1231? (1816) (owner's stamp on f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Markets--Islamic countries--Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Frame covers
• Compound endbands
• Secondary sewing (endband techniques)

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 16v — Diagram
• fol. 45v — Table
• fol. 46r — Table
• fol. 46v — Table