Author
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī
Publication Date
17th century-18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
170 x 120 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 1210
Record ID
vdc_100041591113.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
17th century-18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Abridgement of the Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (The Key of Account) by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshid ibn Masoud ibn Mahmoud al-Kāshī, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (Al-Kāshānī), composed by the author himself (see f. 1v, lines 5-7, transcribed below). The bridge is arranged in thirty sections (chapter), and contains numerous diagrams.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 3-7):
Praise be to God, the One, the One, the Eternal, the Eternal, whose benefits are unlimited and whose blessings are neither limited nor limited
May blessings and peace be upon Muhammad, the best of creation, and his family and companions, the pure fairy. As for what follows, the most needy of God’s creation
Ghiyath al-Din Jamshid Masoud bin Muhammad al-Tayyib al-Kashani, nicknamed Ghiyath, may God bless him, says when I finished
About editing my book called The Key to Accounting, I chose from it this summary of what is essential for beginners and named it
I summarized the key and made it include thirty chapters...
Ends (f. 10v, lines 6-7):
... Seventh, if a number is multiplied by a number, the root of the quotient will be equal to the quotient [l...]
One of the two numbers in the other...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 10v, lines 7-8):
...The message entitled “Summary of the Key” has been completed...
Classification by Ghayath Aldi Jamshid in Arithmetics
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Loth, Otto,
A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
(London: Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 757, p. 220
Edinme Kaynağı
Gaikwar (Gaekwad)
Köken
East India Company Library: its seal (ff. 1r and 10v)
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition of text abridged:
Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd,
Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb
, ed. by Muḥammad Ḥamdī al-Ḥifnī Shaykh, Aḥmad Saʿīd Dimirdāsh, and ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Luṭfī (al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Kātib al-ʿArabī lil-Ṭibāʿah wa al-Nashr, 1967)
Partial facsimile edition and translation of text abridged:
Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd,
The
Extraction of the n-th Root in the Sexagesimal N
otation ... Chapter 5, Treatise III, of Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb
, ed. and trans. by Abdul-Kader Dakhel (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1960)
Studies:
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.)
, (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 802, pp. 269-71
'Kāshī: Ghiyāth (al-Milla wa-) al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Mas‘ūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī [al-Kashānī]', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 613-15
