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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>100 leaves : 185 x 85 (115 x 45) mm, bound to 185 x 90 mm</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>Manuscript codex</dd>
<dd>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)</dd>
<dd>F. 1r-26r: Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ -- 2. f. 26v-27r: al-Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah -- 3. f. 27v-65r: Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah -- 4. f. 66r-100r: Risālat al-ḥisāb</dd>
<dd>Layout: 12-18 lines per page. Catchwords on versos, lower left</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Rubrications in red; diagrams and tables in red and black</dd>
<dd>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)</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 310</dd>
<dd>Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936</dd>
<dd>Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplates inside front and back covers)</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description</dd>
<dd>Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR</dd>
<dd><b>Columbia University Catalog: </b>&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14294926">http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14294926</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;go to CLIO&lt;/a&gt;</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Mathematics, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Arabic language -- Semantics -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Persian</div>
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