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1 copy of Maqāmāt Badīʻ al-Zamān by Badīʻ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī, 969-1008
Title: Maqāmāt Badīʻ al-Zamān
Title: مقامات بديع الزمان
Title: مقامات بديع الزمان الهمداني
Oriental paper. Black and red ink. Transcribed from a Ms dated Ramadan 562/1167.
Incipit: الحمد لله على جزيل نعمائه وجليل الائه… اما بعد فهذا مما املاها الاستاذ الامام ابو الفضل… الهمداني رواية عن عيسى بن هشام من مقامات ابى الفتح الاسكندري قال البديع حدثنا عيسى بن هشام قال دخلت لبصرة وانا من سنى في فتاء…
Language(s): Arabic
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Oriental paper
Dimensions (leaf): 32.5 × 25 cm.
Dimensions (written): 24.5 × 12 cm.
Layout
Hand(s)
Written with Black and red ink
Binding
half-leather binding (without flap)
History
Origin: 13th Century AH; 19th Century CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Accessioned in 1945
Record Sources
"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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