Masāyil-i jabr va muqābalah
Contributors: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner, donor; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1800
Place of publication: [India?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 73
Subjects: Algebra; Early works to 1800; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Masāʼil-i jabr va muqābalah
Description: A work on algebra.
Notes: 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.

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Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.

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).

Persian.

Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).

Modern cardboard quarter covers with red patterned sides and brown leather corners and spine.

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