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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb yusammá al-Kuḥl al-nafīs li-jalāʼ aʻyun al-raʼīs : wa-huwa sharḥ ʻalá al-Qaṣīdah al-ʻAynīyah كتاب يسمى الكحل النفيس لجلاء أعين الرأيس : وهو شرح على القصيدة العينية / Kuḥl al-nafīs li-jalāʼ aʻyun al-raʼīs

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Title

  • Kitāb yusammá al-Kuḥl al-nafīs li-jalāʼ aʻyun al-raʼīs : wa-huwa sharḥ ʻalá al-Qaṣīdah al-ʻAynīyah

Other Title

  • كتاب يسمى الكحل النفيس لجلاء أعين الرأيس : وهو شرح على القصيدة العينية
  • Kuḥl al-nafīs li-jalāʼ aʻyun al-raʼīs

Names

  • Anṭākī, Dāʼūd ibn ʻUmar, -1599
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 9 Muḥarram 1304 [30 September 1886]

Headings

  • -  Avicenna,--980-1037.--Qaṣīdah al-ʻaynīyah
  • -  Soul--Islam--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from frontispiece.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Cairo, Egypt.
  • -  Paper; off-white color laid paper with vertical chain lines and partial watermark of a Swiss-style shield and partial countermark probably "Andrea Galvani, Pordenone" in script; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 492.31
  • -  Naskh; 17 lines in written area 17.5 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1a-81a.
  • -  "19. III 1142 = 3.402."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-402.
  • -  Binding; reddish morroco quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Incipit: عن النفسية شاهدا القيم الوجود بما يستحيل عليه الوصف بالضدية منه ويستكشف كيفية الفيوض صادرة عنه ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... نقلت من نسخة موجودة بالكتابخانة الخديوية بمصر المحمية. وكان الفراغ من نقلها في يوم الخميس المبارك الموافق تسعة محرم الحرام سنة 1304 على صاحبها افضل السلا وازكى التحية امين.

Medium

  • 81 leaves (17 lines), paper : bound ; 23 x 17 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • B751.Q33 A58 1886

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404902

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Anṭākī, DāʼŪd Ibn ʻUmar, -1599, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb yusammá al-Kuḥl al-nafīs li-jalāʼ aʻyun al-raʼīs: wa-huwa sharḥ ʻalá al-Qaṣīdah al-ʻAynīyah. [9 Muḥarram 30 September 1886, 1304] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404902/.

APA citation style:

Anṭākī, D. I. ʻ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1304) Kitāb yusammá al-Kuḥl al-nafīs li-jalāʼ aʻyun al-raʼīs: wa-huwa sharḥ ʻalá al-Qaṣīdah al-ʻAynīyah. [9 Muḥarram 30 September 1886] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404902/.

MLA citation style:

Anṭākī, DāʼŪd Ibn ʻUmar, -1599, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb yusammá al-Kuḥl al-nafīs li-jalāʼ aʻyun al-raʼīs: wa-huwa sharḥ ʻalá al-Qaṣīdah al-ʻAynīyah. [9 Muḥarram 30 September 1886, 1304] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404902/>.