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Baha' al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Husain al-'Amili (1547–1622), Khulasat al-Hisab, The Essence of Arithmetic, illustrated with diagrams and tables Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1116/AD 1704-05

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Baha' al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Husain al-'Amili (1547–1622), Khulasat al-Hisab, The Essence of Arithmetic, illustrated with diagrams and tables
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1116/AD 1704-05

£ 1,500 - 2,000
US$ 1,800 - 2,400

Islamic and Indian Art including Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art

24 Apr 2018, 11:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Baha' al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Husain al-'Amili (1547–1622), Khulasat al-Hisab, The Essence of Arithmetic, illustrated with diagrams and tables
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1116/AD 1704-05
Arabic manuscript on paper, 56 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, headings picked out in red ink, catchwords in wide outer margins, extensive commentaries written horizontally and diagonally in the outer margins of each page, some discoloration, patterned paper covers, rebacked, very worn, one cover defective
213 x 147 mm.

Footnotes

  • The author, a mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, was born in Ba'albek, Lebanon, and studied in Persia where he was Shaykh al-Islam under the Safavid ruler Shah 'Abbas I (1587–1629) in Isfahan. See B. A. Rosenfeld & E. Ihsanoglu, op. cit., pp. 348–50, no. 1058, M1; C. Brockelmann, GAL, II, 546 – 547; S. II, 595 – 597. For another mathematical work by the same author, see the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 23rd October 2017, lot 25.
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    Bonhams
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