Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ms. 47980 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)

Special Collections

Contents

1 copy of ʻUnwan al-sharaf by ʻUmarī, Muḥammad Amīn ibn Khayr Allāh, 1738-1788

Biographical dictionary arranged in tabaqat and extending down to the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Numerous lacunae

Incipit: حرف الالف طبقة الانبياء آدم عليه السلام خلقه الله بيده واسجد له جميع ملائكته ونفخ فيه الروح تاسع ساعة من يوم الجمعة الثامن والعشرين من آذار وكان الطالع الثور وروى ابي بن كعب عن رسول الله صلى ... الله عليه وسلم كان آدم طويلا كانه نخلة

Language(s): Arabic

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 257 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 31 × 22 cm.
Dimensions (written): 22.5 × 14 cm.

Layout

Hand(s)

Clear naskhi hand

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Gregorian.

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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