MS_McClean_190 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

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Summary of Contents: A copy of Qalāʼid al-ʻiqyān fī maḥāsin al-aʻyān by Ibn Khāqān, al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad, d. 1134?
Title: Qalāʼid al-ʻiqyān fī maḥāsin al-aʻyān
Title:  قلائد العقيان في محاسن الاعيان
Author: Ibn Khāqān, al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad d. 1134? ابن خاقان ، الفتح بن محمد بن عبيد الله ابو نصر القيسي
Language(s): Arabic

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MS McClean 190 


Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 120 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 188 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 99 mm.

Layout

The textblock is framed by double rules in red, 21 lines to a page.

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Decoration

The text starts with a double headings opening page in red, yellow and back with a triangular design.

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History

Origin: 1029

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.

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