Mathematics and Astronomy [756]

Mathematics and Astronomy. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1039 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 756 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 756. 1039. Size 91/4 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 122. Eighteen lines in a page. I.Foll.2-14. A Persian mathematical treatise. Dated Rabî’ I., 1041. Scribe, Muḥammad Amîn b. Mîrzâ Muḥammad Faḍl Allah Kâshânî. Fol. 1 contains a note in Arabic, on multiplication (ضرب التوشيح) . Then follows, written in the same hand, --- II.Foll. 15-122. A treatise on Arithmetic , entitled مفتاح الحساب , by GHIYÂTH AL-DÎN JAMSHÎD b. Mas’ûd b. Maḥmûd KÂSHÂNÎ, who dedicated his work to Ulugh Beg. See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 12; Cat. Mus. Brit. 199 ; Cat. St. Petersb. 118; Cat. Lugd. iii. 75; Bibl. Sprenger. 1824. Cf. the preceding no. Begins: و بتوفيقك نعتصم 2 يا كريم ‘ الحمد لله الذى توحد الخ. Mostly well written, with tables and diagrams. Marginal notes. In the original binding of Tippu’s library. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 100. [Tippu.] 2 The MS. has تعتصم .