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

Title

Līlāvatī.
لیلاوتى

Authors

• Bhāskarācārya, 1114-
  باسكراكاريا، -

Other related names

• Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 1548-1595, translator
  فیضى، ابو الفیض بن مبارک،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 54
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13615968
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076493505
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_054.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13615968

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1675

Place

India?

Summary

Translation by Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak Fayz̤ī of a famous work in Sanskrit on geometry and arithmetic.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2v).
   

Extent

75 foliated leaves : 185 x 120 (140 x 85) mm, bound to 190 x 130 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Half binding of black textile with floral printed brown paper sides.

Layout

11-13 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Some geometrical figures (f. 52r-52v, 55r, 58v, 59r-60v, 61r, 62r-62v, 63v, 68r, 69r-71v) and tables (f. 7v-9r) in red.

Script

Written in taʻliq in black ink, pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Half covers
• Codices
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Līlāvatī

Decorations

• fol. 7v — Tables
• fol. 8r — Tables
• fol. 8v — Table
• fol. 9r — Table
• fol. 52r — Diagram
• fol. 52v — Diagram
• fol. 55r — Diagram
• fol. 58v — Diagram
• fol. 59v — Diagram
• fol. 60r — Diagram
• fol. 61r — Diagram
• fol. 62r — Diagram
• fol. 62v — Diagram
• fol. 63v — Diagram
• fol. 68r — Diagram
• fol. 69r — Diagram
• fol. 69v — Diagram
• fol. 70r — Diagram
• fol. 70v — Diagram
• fol. 71r — Diagram
• fol. 71v — Diagram