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2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Idris and Kanem-Bornu Empire

Author: Ibn Furṭū, Aḥmad, fl. 1576-1578 ابن فرطو، أحمد

Title: Kitāb ghazawāt al-sulṭān Idrīs Alawmā fi Barnū

Title: تاريخ مي ادريس

Title: كتاب غزوات السلطان ادريس ألوما في برنو

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

view the printed catalogue>Gacek no.362

Author: Anonymous

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

JISC

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