Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

C. 7 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: الفصول المهمة في معرفة الأئمة Another work on the Twelve Imáms, entitled Al-Fuşúlu'l-muhimma fi ma'rifati-
l-A'imma, defective at the beginning and consequently lacking the author's name
which, however, as we learn from Brockelmann (11, 176) is Núru'd-Din 'Ali
ibn Muhammad ibnu's-Sabbágh (d. 855/1451). For description of contents see
Ahlwardt's Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. IX, pp. 212-213, Nos. 9671-2.
Ff. 202 of 18.5 x 12 c. and 18 ll.; good naskh with rubrications, dated 9 Rabí 1,
1178/Sept. 14, 1861; scribe, 'Abdu'l-Aziz ibn Sa'id [ibn] al-Hajj Ahmad an-Najjár.
Bought on Nov. 12, 1920, from the Belshah collection.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 202
Dimensions: 18.5 × 12 cm.

Layout

18 lines

Hand(s)

Good naskh with rubrications

History

Origin: 1178 AH; 1861 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought on Nov. 12, 1920, from the Belshah collection.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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