Z. 16 (Old Library, Jesus College, Cambridge)

Oriental Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Fawāʾid fī al-ʿulūm al-ʿarabīyah wa-baʿḍ ashʿār wa-amthāl by Ibn al-Asīr, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, 1816 or 17-1889 or 90

Author: Ibn al-Asīr, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, 1816 or 17-1889 or 90 يوسف الاسير الصيداوي

Title: Fawāʾid fī al-ʿulūm al-ʿarabīyah wa-baʿḍ ashʿār wa-amthāl

Title: فوائد في العلوم العربية وبعض اشعار وامثال

Title: Instructions in Arabic with Poetry and Fables written for me by Yousef el Aseer, a Mohammedan Sheikh of Sidon and Judge in the Chief Maronite Court in the Lebanon

Colophon: f. 62r تمت على يد كاتبها يوسف الاسير الصيداوي باسم السنيور صمويل الانكليزي سنة ١٨٥٣

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 1594

Physical Description

Form: other

Support: European paper

Extent: 62 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 19 × 13,5 cm.

Dimensions (written): 16 × 10,5 cm.

Foliation: Foliated by the cataloguer

Collation

62 folios sewed in a single quire

No catchwords

Condition

Good condition

Layout

16/17 lines per page

Hand(s)

Naskh, black and red ink

Yūsuf al-Asīr يوسف الاسير

Decoration

Rubrications in red ink

Binding

Bound with a cardboard cover

History

Origin: 1853 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The manuscript was written for Samuel Lyde, as stated in the colophon and in the ownership statement of the title page dated in 1858

Bequeathed by Samuel Lyde to Jesus College

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World