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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Lawāqiḥ al-anwār fī ṭabaqāt al-sādāt al-akhyār by Shaʿrānī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, ca. 1493-1565 or 1566

Author: Shaʿrānī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, ca. 1493-1565 or 1566 الشعراني، عبد الوهاب بن أحمد، 898-973 هـ

Title: Lawāqiḥ al-anwār fī ṭabaqāt al-sādāt al-akhyār

Title: al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrá

Title: لواقح الأنوار في طبقات السادات الأخيار

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 744

GAL II 335-8, esp. no. 43

Hunt 1997:25

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 241 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 27.1 × 16.4 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Foliation:

Layout

29 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in clear Naskhī; red headings and borderlines. Fol. 1v: illuminated headpiece with gold arcade above the basmala written in red and simple black decorated verticals projecting at the top.

Decoration

Binding

Brown leather flapbinding with stamped cartouches front and back.

History

Origin: Dated 1103 AH

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on H. L. Gottschalk et al.: Islamic Arabic Manuscripts. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts. Vol. IV. Revised edition edited by Derek Hopwood. Birmingham: Selly Oak Colleges, 1985, with additional enhancements.

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