Manuscript/Mixed Material Incomplete collection of two Arabic works and two unidentified poems in Persian

Title

• Incomplete collection of two Arabic works and two unidentified poems in Persian

Summary

• An incomplete compilation including an Arabic treatise on the sultanate and caliphate based on a hadith of Kaʻb al-Akhbār with an interlinear Persian translation, an Arabic treatise on the legal division of human actions into lawful and unlawful, and two unidentified poems in Persian; the last of the poems is incomplete.

Created / Published

• [late 18th century]

Headings

• -  Sultanate
• -  Caliphate
• -  Islamic law
• -  Persian poetry
• -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
• -  India

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
• -  Arabic and Persian.
• -  Title supplied by cataloger.
• -  Name of scribe not indicated.
• -  Possibly written in India.
• -  Paper: light blue laid paper with both horizontal and vertical chain lines, and perhaps a faintly visible partial watermark; black ink with no rubrication, catchwords on rectos.
• -  Naskh (Arabic sections); Nastaʻliq (Persian sections), 5-9 lines in written area 12.5 x 6 cm.
• -  Fol. 5b-23b (1st work), 24a-28a blank; 28b-40b (2nd work), 41a-45a blank; 45b-48a (3rd work), 49 blank; 50a-58b (4th work, incomplete).
• -  Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript.
• -  Binding is brown cardboard with blue cloth spine.
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
• -  Incipit: قال كعب الاخبار رضي الله عنه يقول اللخ تعلى في بعض كتب المنزلة على الانبياء ...

Medium

• 58 leaves (5-9 lines), paper : bound ; 17.5 x 11 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• JC49 .I57 1750z

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/plmp.m180

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2016404616

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2016404616

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