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Summary of Contents: The Nuzhat al-abṣār wa-juhaynat al-akhbār by Ibn Abī al-Surūr, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1596 or 7-1676 or 7, a general history of the world from its earliest beginnings till the reign of Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1612-1640, in 1622.

Author: Ibn Abī al-Surūr, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1596 or 7-1676 or 7 ابن ابي السرور، محمد بن محمد البكري

Title: Nuzhat al-abṣār wa-juhaynat al-akhbār

Title: نزهة الابصار وجهينة الاخبار

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 1169

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 246 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 19.3 × 14.2 cm.

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Layout

21 lines per page.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1042 AH; 1632 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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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