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Summary of Contents: 8 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Folk literature, Egypt, Love poetry, Mathematics, Cartography, and Pyramids
1.
Author: anonymous
Title: Qiṣṣat Fars al-ʻAqīlī wa-mā jará lahā maʻ al-amīr Abī Zayd
Title: قصة فرس العقيلي وما جرى لها مع الامير ابي زيد

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 854
2.
Author: anonymous
Title: al-Naṣr al-mumtadd fī fatḥ Tihāmah wa-Najd
Title: al-Washī wa-al-ṭirāz fī fatḥ al-Ḥijāz
Title: النصر الممتد في فتح تهامة ونجد
Title: الوشي والطراز في فتح الحجاز

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 1188
3.
Author: Isḥāqī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī, d. 1649 or 50 الاسحاقي، محمد بن عبد المعطي
Title: Laṭāʼif akhbār al-uwal fī man taṣarrafa fī Miṣr min al-duwal
Title: لطائف اخبار الاول في من تصرف في مصر من الدول

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 977
4.
Author: Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1325-1374 or 5 ابن ابي حجلة، احمد بن يحيى
Title: Dīwān al-ṣabābah li-ahl al-ʻishq wa-al-kābah
Title: ديوان الصبابة لاهل العشق والكابة

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 417
5.
Author: al-Fiyīlī, Ḥasan al-Darwīsh ibn Aḥmad Khān Niʻmat Allāh الفييلي، حسن الدرويش بن احمد خان نعمة الله
Title: Rāwī al-funūn wa-ḥāwī al-mutūn
Title: راوي الفنون وحاوي المتون

Language(s): Turkish

References

no. 447
6.
Author: Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, d. 1349 ابن الوردى، زين الدين عمر ابن مطفر
Title: Kharīdat al-ʿajāʾib
Title: Kharīdat al-ʿajāʾib wa-Farīdat al-Gharāʾib
Title: خريدة العجائب
Title: خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 337
7.
Author: Damurdāshī, Aḥmad, d. ca. 1755 الدمرداشي، احمد
Title: Majmūʻ al-durrah al-munṣānah fī waqāʼiʻ Kinānah min sannat alf tisʻah wa-tisʻīn
Title: مجموع الدرة المنصانة في وقائع كنانة من سنة الف تسعة وتسعين

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 1012
8.
Author: Suyūṭī, 1445-1505 السيوطى، جلال الدين
Title: Tuḥfat al-karām bi-khabar al-ahrām
Title: تحفة الكرام بخبر الاهرام

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 227

Physical Description

Form: codex
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History

Origin: undated 1159 AH; 1746 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900. abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team.

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