Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS McClean 191 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Contents

Summary of Contents: A copy of Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārīb by Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 377 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 143 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 95 mm.

Layout

The textblock is framed by two rules in red, 19 lines to a page.

Decoration

Binding

Seal(s):

History

Origin: 1078

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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