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1 copy of Kitāb al-Yamanī by ʿUtbī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār, -1035 or 1036

Author: ʿUtbī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār, -1035 or 1036 العتبي، محمد بن عبد الجبار، ت. 427 هـ
Title: Kitāb al-Yamanī
Title: كتاب اليميني

Contains the last part of the second volume only.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 875
GAL I 314;I 547-8

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ii + 72 ff. + ii
Dimensions (leaf): 19.0 × 13.0 cm.
Dimensions (written):
Foliation: Near-contemporary(?) foliation in black ink with eastern Arabic numerals ('176-261'), upper left recto.
Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil ('1-75'), upper left recto including front fly leaves as ff. 1-2.

Layout

15 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in clear Naskhī by al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥāsitī al-Wārānī الحسين بن الحسن بن الحسين الحاستي الواراني ; fully vowelled; many glosses in the margins.

Decoration

Binding

Binding missing, modern paper flyleaves.

History

Origin: Dated Tuesday 19th Rabīʿ I 672 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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