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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of al-Jawāhir al-thamīnah fī maḥāsin al-Madīnah by Kibrīt, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1603 or 4-1659 or 60
Author: Kibrīt, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1603 or 4-1659 or 60 كبريت، محمد بن عبد الله
Title: al-Jawāhir al-thamīnah fī maḥāsin al-Madīnah
Title: الجواهر الثمينة في محاسن المدينة
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ورحمة ربك خير مما يجمعون الحمد لله الذي حبب الينا المدينة وجعلها من افضل البقاع الامينة
Explicit: والحمد لله الذي بامره جرى القلم على منوال ما اقتضته الحكم وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وحسبنا الله وكفى||

Language(s): Arabic

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Form: codex
Extent: 124 p.
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Provenance and Acquisition

Note at end of manuscript records that 'Abd al-Majid al-Baghdadi was sent from London to Medina to buy a copy of the text when it was still a rarity in 1326 A.H.(1908)

Presented by A.G. Ellis Gregorian

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