Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Bijapur 45]

Mathematics and Astronomy. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 45 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 762 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 762. B 45. Size 91/2 in. by 51/2 in. ; foll. 16. Twenty one lines in a page. The first portion of a Commentary (ممزوج) on the خلاصة الحساب , by Ḥâjjî Ḥusain YAZDÎ. The preface begins: نحمدك يا من هو منه الابتداء و الاختتام . The author refers in it to an earlier commentary of his, entitled المبين . The commentary begins: و قال المص دام ظله العالى مقدمة فى امور ستة تعريف علم الحساب الخ. It breaks off in the middle of Chapter II., the rest of the MS. being lost. Written in a small hurried Nasta’liḳ, on red paper. Of about the eleventh century. Inscribed خلاصة الحساب الخ .