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

Title

Līlāvatī.
لیلاوتى

Authors

• Bhāskarācārya, 1114-
  باسکراکاریا

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
• Bahādur Shāh I, 1643-1712, dedicatee
• Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 1548-1595, translator
  ابو الفیض بن مبارك فیضى,
• Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605, commissioning body

Call number

MS Or 38
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13554095
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055768294
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_038.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554095

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1711

Place

Lahore

Summary

Translation by Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak Fayz̤ī (d. 1595) of Bhāskarācārya's Sanskrit work on geometry and arithmetic. The text is dedicated to a Muḥammad Shāh ruling in Lāhore, i.e. Bahādur Shāh I, 1643-1712 of the Mughal Empire.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from f. 1v.
   

Extent

[2], 56, [2] foliated leaves : 215 x 155 (160 x 100) mm, bound to 220 x 165 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Red half leather binding with marbled paper sides. Sewn on recessed supports with hollow spine. Gold fillet lines and titling on spine.

Layout

13 long lines; extensive marginalia.

Decoration

Rubrications.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry
• Arithmetic
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices
• Half covers
• Trough-marbled paper

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Līlāvatī

Decorations

• fol. 6r — Table
• fol. 9v — Table
• fol. 12v — Table
• fol. 16v — Table
• fol. 17v — Table
• fol. 38v — Diagram
• fol. 39r — Diagram
• fol. 39v — Diagram
• fol. 41r — Diagram
• fol. 42r — Diagram
• fol. 42v — Illustration
• fol. 43v — Diagram
• fol. 44v — Diagram
• fol. 45v — Diagram
• fol. 46v — Diagram
• fol. 47r — Diagram
• fol. 47v — Diagram
• fol. 49v — Diagram
• fol. 50v — Diagram
• fol. 51v — Diagram
• fol. 52r — Diagram
• fol. 52v — Diagram
• fol. 53r — Diagram
• fol. 53v — Diagram
• fol. 54r — Diagram
• fol. 54v — Diagram