Islamic Arabic 221 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)
Mingana
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of ḥāwī al-mukhtaṣarāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt by Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
Excerpt of Al-waraqāt of Māridīnī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl, -1406
The work is divided into a muqaddamah, 30 bābs and a khātimah.
Incipit: يقول العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد بن محمد بن احمد سبط عبد الله المارديني الموقت بالجامع الازهر الحمد الله الذي بنعمته تتمالصا لحات ... و بعد فلما كان علم الوقت من اجل القرب ... و سميتها حاوي المختصرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات
Explicit: وكان الفراغ من تعليقها يوم الجمعة المبارك سادس عشرين صفر الخير من شهور سنة 1082 على يد كاتبها ... الفقير احمد الشيبتي القاطن بالفيوم
Language(s): Arabic
References
Printed catalogue no. 976
GAL 1.c., esp. no. 2, Auszüge a; II 167-8; II 215-17
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 44 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 20.4 × 15.0 cm.
Dimensions (written):
Foliation:
Foliation:
Layout
Hand(s)
Written in Naskhī by Aḥmad al-Shaybatī wo was residing in el-Fayyūm
Decoration
Red headings
History
Origin: Dated Friday 26th Ṣafar 1082 AH
Provenance and Acquisition
On fol. 1r is the half-obliterated inscription of an owner.
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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