Islamic Arabic 557 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)
Mingana
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt by Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, d. 1222
Title: al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt
Title: الاسباب والعلامات
Language(s): Arabic
References
Printed catalogue no. 945
GAL I 490-1, esp. no. 1; I 895-6
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 185 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 19.5 × 13.2 cm.
Dimensions (written):
Layout
Hand(s)
Written in Naskhī bordering on Talʿīq. The name of the copyist is given as Yūnus ibn Muṣṭafā al-Ḥamawī.
Decoration
Red headings
History
Origin: Dated end of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1032 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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