Islamic Arabic 216 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)
Mingana
Contents
Summary of Contents: Second of two volumes: Letters ʿayn - yāʾ (ع - ي)
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: 377 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 29.8 × 20.4 cm.
Dimensions (written):
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Layout
33 lines per page
Hand(s)
Written in Naskh by two hands, the second of which is the in Islamic Arabic 215 mentioned ʿAbd al-Muʿṭi ibn Sālim ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Shiblī al-Simlāwī; main headings in thick black and sub-headings in red.
Decoration
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
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