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handbooks on the same subject, cf. GAL I, pp. 378-9; S I, pp. 650-1. The work, after a brief introduction and a detailed survey of the contents, concluded by a poem in mesnevi rhyme (5b-8a), consists mostly of tables (cf. plate) with additional explanations. Copious marginal additions,/ervds and quotations in prose and poetry from various, mostly Arabic, works. The work is preceded by another series of tables, equally accompanied by marginal glosses in Arabic and Turkish, showing the ‘Indian’ numbers - the heading Rakm-i Hindi is found in a headpiece preceding the first table - and examples of various types of calculation like divisions and multiplications. Bound in boards covered in tattered green cloth; the title 'Kitab Ferd’iï occurs three times on the outer front-cover; glazed cream paper; (l)+2+83 + l folios; original foliation; 232x145 mm and 168x93 mm; nesih; tables in black and red- borders in gold within black lines; outer borders in red; headings in red; texts accompanying the tables in black against a pink surface; occasional illuminations of a pink and gold leaf with black stem in the tables and between the texts; headpieces with floral ornamentation, mostly in gold and green, on the first (unnumbered) page and ff. 5b, 6a, and 8a; a colophon in black against a pale yellow surface (83a); a picture of a flower bouquet in various colours is printed on the (unnumbered) ‘title page’; completed by Hafiz islamboli in mid-Ramazan 1257 (27 October - 5 November 1841). Bought from Fatatri on 28 March 1971. Begins (5b, after a besmele): A** Ul ... jjójïl jiU. Jjl AJLjtf *liJ i A» ojSLuf (j «It,? j a. 111 Ijj {jLe. * Colophon (83a): tyJLu i&A 3r*i I l j-« 4-h). 5 aII aj 3-i. j^JI a jjfc i-« ... ,jJI II j >>jJLi >J8 t «II j_. 5 ■>.II j — ~ j . II 0 o.ii «II yijJI U^L£. uit 4lllAut Jal gjL— jJAill 4_>j iJSLkJI o^SljJÜI fit 5-* 3 J*>JI ó-c. ajSjjlj ^ 3 L« j j—w> j gj iit 4< ml Catalogue entries: Fihris 1272(1, p. 327); Sohrweide II, 116, 117; Yardim 3380.