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5 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Cosmography and Koran

1.
Author: Ibn al-Athīr, Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad, 1254-1299 ابن الاثير، اسماعيل بن احمد
Title: Tuḥfat al-ʻajāʼib wa-ṭurfat al-gharāʼib
Title: تحفة العجائب وطرفة الغرائب

Ascribed on title page to Ibn al-Athīr, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1160-1233

On the inside of the lower cover is a note on the Ms in the hand of J.S. King, Major Retired Indian Staff Corps, dated Sept. 1892

Incipit: الحمد لله رب الارباب منشی السحاب العالم بکل شی فلا یغزب عنه مثقال ذره فی السموات ولا فی الارض ولا اصغر من ذلک ولا اکبر الا فی کتاب ... وبعد فهذا ... کتاب یتصرف الناظر فیه بین جد وهزل ورقیق وجزل
Colophon: وافق الفراغ من كتابته ...عثمن بن احمد الحورانی ...نهار الجمعه ...رابع عشرین شوال الخیر سنه 969

Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.372
2.
Author: Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, 1116 (ca.)-1201
Title: Muntakhab ʻuyūn al-tawārīkh
Title: منتخب عيون التواريخ
Incipit: هذا منتخب من عيون التواريخ لابن الجوزي رحمه الله قال علما التاریخ الارض کلها علی صخرة والصخرة منكبي ملك
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.372
3.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Qiṣṣat Dhī al-Qarnayn
Title: قصة ذي القرنين
Incipit: قال بعضهم دخل ذو القرنين في الظلمات
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.372
4.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ḥadīth Iram dhāt al-ʿImād
Title: حديث ارم ذات العماد
Incipit: هذا حديث ارم ذات العماد قال الله تعالى ارم ذات العماد التي لم يخلق مثلها في البلاد
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.372
5.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ḥadīth ahwāl al-qiyāmah
Title: حدیث اهوال القیامة
Incipit: انه قال في اخر خطبته قريب وفاته اتقوا ربكم
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.372

Physical Description

Form: codex
1b-163a f. 163b-165b f. 165b-169b f. 169b-174b f. 174b-201b f.
Dimensions (leaf): 27 × 17.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 19.5 × 12.5 cm.

Layout

Hand(s)

Clear naskhi hand

History

Origin: 969 AH; 1562 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Ex libris Edward Heron-Allen

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".

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JISC

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