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Summary of Contents: النحل للشهرستاني.
كتاب الملل و A fine old MS. of Shahristání's well-known "Book of Sects and Schools"
(Kitábu l-Milal wa'n-Nihal), compiled in 521/1127, excellently edited by the Rev.
William Cureton (London, 1846), and translated into German by Haarbrücker
(Halle, 1850-1). See Brockelmann, vol. 1, pp. 428-429 This MS., bought from the late 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in Jan. 1920, comprises
431 ff. of 25'1 x 16'3 c. and 15 ll., and is written in a fine, large clear old naskh,
fully vocalized, but the first page has been supplied in a later hand. The colophon
is dated the 6th of Dhu'l-Hijja, 542 (27 April, 1148). The volume belonged at one
time (apparently in 1095/1684) to the endowments of a college at Amásiya in Asia
Minor.

Author: Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, 1086?-1153 الشهرستاني، محمد ابن عبد الكريم

Title: Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal

Title: كتاب الملل والنحل

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 431

Dimensions: 25.1 × 16.3 cm.

Layout

15 lines

Hand(s)

written in a fine, large clear old naskh, fully vocalized

History

Origin: 542 AH; 1148 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS., bought from the late Abdu'l-Majid Belshah' in Jan. 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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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