Badāʼiʻ al-funūn
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1664
Place of publication: [India?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Markets; Handbooks, manuals; Commerce; Persian Manuscripts
Description: On accounting for merchants, including calculating shorthands to make accounting easier (abjad numbers), which the author calls ʻilm al-siyāq.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 3r).

Layout: 14-15 long lines with alpha-numerical calculations and marginalia; catchwords on versos, lower left.

Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red.

Origin: Copy completed in 1074 AH. (f. 55r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 37.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2018. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān, dated A.H. 1231? (1816) (owner's stamp on f. 1r).

Islamic binding. Brown leather frame binding with blind tooling, bright blue paper sides. Outer corners of leather frames create a triangular shape. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

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