Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb. al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 31 leaves : 190 x 110 (140 x 65) mm, bound to 190 x 110 mm Two treatises on mathematics, copied together. The second work, al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah, contains only the first maqālah and seems to be the Arabic translation of al-Qūshjī's Persian Risālah fī al-ḥisāb Manuscript codex Title from introduction to each work (f. 2r, 19r) 1. f. 1v-16v: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb -- 2. f. 18v-31r: al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah Foliation: Continuous modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left Layout: 27 long lines; border-ruled Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink, pointed Decoration: Rubrications in red and blue; tables in red. Textblock is border-ruled in gold Origin: Probably copied in the second half of the 18th or first half of the 19th century Shelfmark: MS Or 290 Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936 Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover) Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap. Central mandorla of black leather onlay with gold painted outline and floral decoration. Coordinated gold decoration on flap. Gold tooled frame on flap and boards. Silver flecked paper doublure and flyleaves. Spine has been reinforced with black leather Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO