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Summary of Contents: نسمة السحر بذكر من تشيع وشعر (جلد ) Notices of Shi'a poets who wrote in Arabic, by Yusuf ibn Yahyà al-Yamaní
aş-Şan'ání, compiled in 1111/1700. See Brockelmann, vol. II, p. 403, and Ahlwardt's
Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. VI, pp. 502-503, No. 7423. This MS. contains only
the second half of the work, beginning with the letter b. Ff. 210 of 30'8 x 21 c. and 25 ll.; coarse but legible naskh; dated 6 Jumádà II,
1324/July 28, 1906. One of the Belshah MSS. bought in the spring of 1920.

The manuscript contains only the second part of the work, beginning with the letter ط.

Author: Ṣanʻānī, Yūsuf ibn Yaḥyá, 1667-1709 يوسف بن يحيى اليمني الصنعاني

Title: Nasmat al-saḥr fī dhikr man tashayyaʻ wa-shaʻara

Title: نسمة السحر بذكر من تشيع وشعر

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 210

Dimensions: 30.8 × 21 cm.

Layout

25 lines

Hand(s)

coarse but legible naskh

History

Origin: 1324 AH; 1906 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

One of the Belshah MSS. bought in the spring of 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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JISC

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