Islamic Arabic 1343 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)

Mingana

Second of two volumes

Author: Diyārbakrī, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, d. 1558 or 9 الديار بكري، حسين بن محمد بن الحسن

Title: Taʾrīkh al-khamīs fī aḥwāl anfas al-nafīs

Title: تاريخ الخميس في احوال انفس النفيس

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 903

GAL II 381; II 514

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 355 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 30.2 × 20.3 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Foliation: Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Condition

Pages slightly stained, some repaired. Flap binding worn, otherwise good condition.

Layout

25 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in Naskhī by Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Munāf هاشم بن عبد مناف ; red headings, carefully corrected.

Decoration

Binding

Brown leather binding with fore-edge flap, envelope flap, and a central gold-tooled almond-shaped medallion (mandorla) filled with foliage on front and back cover. Doublures of the covers made of marbeled paper. Historic paper labels on spine and front cover.

History

Origin: Dated Wednesday 20th Ramaḍān 1098 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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Bibliography

This work has two volumes: Vol. 1 bears the classmark Islamic Arabic 1342, Vol. 2 Islamic Arabic 1343

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World