Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Qq. 286 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Summary of Contents: Work on the polemics between Al-Mutanabbī المتنبي and his critics.

Wrongly listed in Browne's catalogue under the title Al-Muwāzanah bayna Abī Tamām al-Ṭāʼī wa-al-Buḥturī

Language(s): Arabic

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 145 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 24.0 × 17.5 cm.
Dimensions (written):

Layout

24 lines per page.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 694 AH; 1294 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.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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