Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS McClean 189 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Contents

Summary of Contents: A copy of Kitab al-Qala'id wa al-Fawa'id by (Abu 'Ali al-Hasan b. 'Ali b. Ibrahim b. Yazdad b. Hormuz) al-Ahwazi

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 78 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 122 mm.
Dimensions (written): 104 × 60 mm.

Layout

The text is vocalised, and set within gold borders, 7 lines to a page.

Decoration

There is a decorated frontispiece in gold, blue and polichrome scrolls. A decorative heading is found at the beginning of the text.

Seal(s):

History

Origin: 16th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequeathed by Mr Frank McClean in 1904.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on James Montague Rhodes "A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum", Cambridge University Press, 1912; with corrections and additions supplied by Marcus Fraser and Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti.

Availability

The manuscript can be consulted in the Graham Robertson Study room at The Fitzwilliam Museum, on an appointment only basis. To request an appointment, please email collections@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk citing the manuscript number.


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