Keble MS. 93 (Keble College Library, Keble College, University of Oxford)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
A copy of Asās al-barāhīn by Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥanafī on the necessities of the religion.
Title: Kitāb Asās al-barāhīn fī bayān ḍarūrīyāt al-dīn
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي كرّمنا بالعقل القويم حتى وقفنا مواقف توحيده
Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ في كتابة هذا الكتاب الشريف والتأليف اللطيف . . . في شهر جماذى الاخر في سنة ثلث وسبعين ومائة والف من هجرة من له العزة والشرف . . . م م م
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 160 mm.
Layout
One column of 13 lines per page. 144 × 85 mm.
Hand(s)
Script: Fine Naskh.
Decoration
Text box surrounded in gold and black rules. Decorated heading on opening page.
Binding
Eastern binding of brown leather over boards with central stamped and filigree medallion corner pieces and tooled edges. Envelope flap.
History
Origin: Jumādā II 1173 AH; February-March 1760 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Rev. Greville J. Chester, Keble College.
Donated to Keble College Library by Rev. Greville J. Chester in 1882.
Record Sources
Description based on Parkes, The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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