Islamic Arabic 1269 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)
Mingana
Contents
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
Title: al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrá
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:
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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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