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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī ʻilm al-waḍʻ رسالة في علم الوضع /

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Title

  • Risālah fī ʻilm al-waḍʻ

Other Title

  • رسالة في علم الوضع /

Summary

  • Treatise on Arabic literary style.

Names

  • Anbābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1824 or 1825-1895 or 1896
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [second half of the 19th century]

Headings

  • -  Arabic language--Style
  • -  Arabic language--Philosophy
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; heavy, light cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a crescent moon with a human face in a lozenge shaped shield; black ink with some rubrication; extensive marginal notes on some pages; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 742
  • -  Naskh; 13 lines in written area 13 x 6 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-34a.
  • -  "48. V 2776 = 5.302."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-302.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على اشرف المرسلين سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين. ااما بعد فهذه رسالة في تحقيق الوصع وما له من الاقسام ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت هذه الرسالة بحمد الله وعونه.

Medium

  • 34 leaves (13 lines), paper : bound ; 24.9 x 18 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6161 .A593 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404899

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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:

Anbābī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, 1824 Or Or 1896, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī ʻilm Al-Waḍʻ. [Second Half of the 19th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404899/.

APA citation style:

Anbābī, M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī ʻilm Al-Waḍʻ. [Second Half of the 19th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404899/.

MLA citation style:

Anbābī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, 1824 Or Or 1896, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī ʻilm Al-Waḍʻ. [Second Half of the 19th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404899/>.