Kitāb Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ ...
Contributors: Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, -1355?; Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475; Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1574
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Arab Mathematics; Early works to 1800; Arab Astronomy; Geometry; Arabic language; Semantics; Arabic Manuscripts; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ; Majmūʻ mubārak...min taʼlīf al-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Qūshjī fīhi mukhtaṣar al-Miftāḥ fī al-ḥisāb wa-Risālah la-hu fī ʻilm al-hayʼah wa-Risālah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb la-hu bi-al-Fārsī
Description: Set of 4 works copied together two in Arabic, two in Persian. The handwriting changes on f. 29v, near the beginning of the third work.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title of first work from introduction (f. 1v); title of second work from colophon (f. 27r); title of third work from title on flyleaf (flyleaf 6 recto); title of fourth work from colophon (f. 100r).

Layout: 12-18 lines per page. Catchwords on versos, lower left.

Script: Written in naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; diagrams and tables in red and black.

Origin: First work dated 9 Muḥarram 982 AH (f. 26r); second work undated; third work dated 982 AH; fourth work dated 985 AH (f. 100r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 310.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Arabic and Persian.

Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplates inside front and back covers).

Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard; leather is cracked with parts of spine and corner missing. Blind stamped central cartouche with blind tooled frame. Marbled paper doublure.

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Table of contents: title: F. 1r-26r: Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ; title: 2. f. 26v-27r: al-Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah; title: 3. f. 27v-65r: Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah; title: 4. f. 66r-100r: Risālat al-ḥisāb.