Islamic Arabic 215 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)

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Mingana

Summary of Contents: First of two volumes: Letters Alif to ẓā (ا - ظ)

Author: Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb, 1329-1414 or 1415 الفيروزآبادي، محمد بن يعقوب، 729-817 هـ

Title: al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ

Title: القاموس المحيط

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 1405

GAL II 181-3, no. 1; Suppl. II 234

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 402 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 28.6 × 19.6 cm.

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Layout

33 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in Naskh by ʿAbd al-Muʿṭi ibn Sālim ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Shiblī al-Simlāwī; main headings in thick black and sub-headings in red.

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History

Origin: Dated (at the end of the first volume) 3rd Shawwāl 1185 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 215, Vol. 2 Islamic Arabic 216

Funding of Cataloguing

Cadbury Research Library

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