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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Waṣf al-dhamīm fī al-fiʻl al-laʼīm الوصف الذميم في الفعل اللأيم

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Title

  • al-Waṣf al-dhamīm fī al-fiʻl al-laʼīm

Other Title

  • الوصف الذميم في الفعل اللأيم

Summary

  • Treatise on various sins.

Names

  • Anṣārī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, active 16th century
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century?]

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Sin--Islam--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1b.
  • -  Written by ʻAlī al-Shaʻrāwī.
  • -  Author not mentioned in text; ascription from Brockelmann.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with irregular horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 95
  • -  Small naskh; 32 lines in written area 17 x 11.5 cm.
  • -  "26. III 1492 = 3.752."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-752.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة اللهم يسر. الجكد لله وكفؤ وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى. وبعد فلما قال في هذا الزمان اخوان الصفا وكثر الجفا وعدم الوفا وتقدمت في العراة والحفا فاجبت ان اجعل لي معنى ذلك الرسالة ... وسميتها بالوصف الذميم في فعل الليئم ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تم بحمد الله وعونه على التمتم والكمال علقه بيده فقير الحال العبد الضعيف علي الشعراوي بالمارتالا المنصوري غفر الله له ولوالديه امين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم.

Medium

  • 10 leaves (32 lines), paper : bound ; 20.6 x 15.8 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.75 .A58 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404901

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Anṣārī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAlī, Active 16Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Waṣf al-dhamīm fī al-fiʻl al-laʼīm. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404901/.

APA citation style:

Anṣārī, M. I. ʻ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. al-Waṣf al-dhamīm fī al-fiʻl al-laʼīm. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404901/.

MLA citation style:

Anṣārī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAlī, Active 16Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Waṣf al-dhamīm fī al-fiʻl al-laʼīm. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404901/>.