Islamic Arabic 1393 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)

Mingana

Second of two volumes

Author: Ibn al-ʿArabī, 1165-1240 ابن العربي، 560-638 هـ

Title: al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah fī maʿrifat al-asrār al-malakīyah

Title: الفتوحات المكية

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 654

GAL 1, c, esp. no. 11

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 385 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 32.2 × 21.1 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Foliation: Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso

Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Condition

Some historic damage to the sewing of the manuscript, joint on front cover split. Envelope and fore-edge flap missing. Some discolouration and edge damage througout.

Layout

45 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in fine Naskhī by Aḥmad Abū al-Yaman al-ʿAlamī احمد ابو اليمن العلمي ; red headings and borderlines; many comments in the margins.

Decoration

Binding

Redish-brown leather binding with central stamped almond-shaped medallion (mandorla) in gold and black on front and back cover. Doublures of the covers made of yellow paper.

History

Origin: Dated Tuesday (?) Rabīʿ I 1184 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 1354, Vol. 2 Islamic Arabic 1393.

Funding of Cataloguing

Cadbury Research Library

Subjects

Sufism

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