Masāyil-i jabr va muqābalah

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 ii, 73, ii leaves + 5 leaves : 244 x 158 (170 x 90) mm, bound to 250 x 160 mm A work on algebra Manuscript codex Layout: 15 long lines Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed Decoration: Some diagrams and tables in red and black Origin: The copy is undated, perhaps produced in India in the 19th century Shelfmark: MS Or 297 According to this copy, the author was resident in the district of Sahāranpūr in the province of Shāh Jahānābād and to have composed this treatise around 1180 A.H. (1766-1767 CE) (f. 1v) Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936 Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover) Modern cardboard quarter covers with red patterned sides and brown leather corners and spine 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