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Mingana

An anthology in prose and verse on human needs, characteristics, passions.

Author: Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, -1108 or 1109 الراغب الأصفهاني، الحسين بن محمد، ت. 502 هـ

Title: Muḥāḍarāt al-udabāʾ wa-muḥāwarāt al-shuʿarāʾ wa-al-bulagghāʾ

Title: محاضرات الادباء و محاورات الشعراء و البلغاء

The manuscript contains part two of the work, beginning at juzʾ12.

The end is missing, breaking off in juzʾ 22.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 1718

GAL I 289, no. 1; Suppl. I 505

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 160 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 25.9 × 19.5 cm.

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Layout

21 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in informal Naskh of perhaps the 17th or 18th century; black headings; some glosses in the margins.

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History

Origin: Undated, probably 17th or 18th century CE

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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