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2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Idris and Kanem-Bornu Empire
1.
Title: تاريخ مي ادريس
Title: Tārīkh May Idrīs
Filiation: There is another manuscript of this work in Royal Asiatic Society Library, RAS Arabic 29
Published in : A Sudanic Chronicle: the Bornu Expeditions of Idris Alauma (1564-1576), Dierk Lange, Stuttgart, 1987
Incipit: اعلموا انما بعثنا على هذا التدوين في هذا الوقت ما راينا من تاليف الشيخ الفقيه مسفرمه عمر بن عثمان فى عصر سلطانه الملك العادل الورع ... ادريس بن علي بن احمد بن عثمان بن ادريس الحاج
Language(s): Arabic
References
2.
Title: Dīwān salāṭīn Barnū
Title: ديوان سلاطين برنو
Incipit: بن الملك (وامه مكيه) اولهم السلطان سيف بن ديازن ... بغداد هو بنى سكاسي وقيل كساكي
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
fol. 1b-138a 24 × 18 cm. 17 × 12 cm. fol. 140a-148b 24 × 18 cm. 17 × 12 cm.
Hand(s)
West African Maghribi >
History
Origin: 1269 AH; 1853 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
in 20th century.
Record Sources
"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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