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Manuscript/Mixed Material Muḥāḍarāt al-awāʼil wa-musāmarāt al-awākhir محاضرات الاوائل ومسامرات الاواخر /

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Title

  • Muḥāḍarāt al-awāʼil wa-musāmarāt al-awākhir

Other Title

  • محاضرات الاوائل ومسامرات الاواخر /

Summary

  • Commentary on al-Suyūṭī's Wasāʼil ilá musāmarat al-awāʼil.

Names

  • Shaykh al-Turbah, ʻAlī Dadah ibn Muṣṭafá, -1598 or 1599
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 13 Ṣ[afar] 1158 [17 March 1745]

Headings

  • -  Suyūṭī,--1445-1505.--Wasāʼil ilá musāmarat al-awāʼil
  • -  Islam--Miscellanea--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islamic civilization--Miscellanea--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by al-Qarā Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; polished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a six-pointed star and the countermark G B; black ink with some red overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 197.303
  • -  Taʻliq script; 21 lines in written area 16 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-122a; two ijāzahs on fol. 123b and 124a.
  • -  "18. III 1081 = 3.339."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-339.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. باسم الاول اللآخر الباطن الظاهر نحمده بلسان الحمد وكل حامد مما بدئ في الوجود من غائب وشاهد ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: حرره عنبار يفال العلمأ وتراب اقدام الفقراء شيخ القرا مصطفى بن محمد عفى عنهما ولمن يكتب له سنة 1158 ص 13.

Medium

  • 124 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 19.7 x 14.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP55 .S937 1745

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404884

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Shaykh Al-Turbah, ʻAlī Dadah Ibn Muṣṭafá, -1598 Or 1599, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Muḥāḍarāt Al-Awāʼil Wa-Musāmarāt Al-Awākhir. [13 Ṣafar 17 March 1745, 1158] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404884/.

APA citation style:

Shaykh Al-Turbah, ʻ. D. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1158) Muḥāḍarāt Al-Awāʼil Wa-Musāmarāt Al-Awākhir. [13 Ṣafar 17 March 1745] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404884/.

MLA citation style:

Shaykh Al-Turbah, ʻAlī Dadah Ibn Muṣṭafá, -1598 Or 1599, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Muḥāḍarāt Al-Awāʼil Wa-Musāmarāt Al-Awākhir. [13 Ṣafar 17 March 1745, 1158] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404884/>.