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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-Qawl al-tāmm fī bayān aṭwār sayyidinā Ādam ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl كتاب القول التام في بيان اطوار سيدنا آدم عليه الصلاة والسلام بالتمام والكمال / Qawl al-tāmm fī bayān aṭwār sayyidinā Ādam

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Title

  • Kitāb al-Qawl al-tāmm fī bayān aṭwār sayyidinā Ādam ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl

Other Title

  • كتاب القول التام في بيان اطوار سيدنا آدم عليه الصلاة والسلام بالتمام والكمال
  • Qawl al-tāmm fī bayān aṭwār sayyidinā Ādam

Summary

  • Treatise on Islamic interpretation of the Biblical and Qurʼānic figure Adam.

Names

  • Fayyūmī, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad, -1658 or 1659
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 23 Rabīʻ al-awwal 1288 [12 June 1871]

Headings

  • -  Adam--(Biblical figure)--Islamic interpretations--Early works to 1800
  • -  Prophets, Pre-Islamic--Early works to 1800
  • -  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; light cream color polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and a watermark of a crescent moon with a human face in profile in a shield and the countermark of Andrea Galvani, Pordenone; black ink with some rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 318.4
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 17.5 x 8.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-75a.
  • -  "25. III 1430 = 3.689."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-689.
  • -  Binding; red half leather with blue and red marbled paper sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding; book enclosed in a box in red leather edges and blue and red marbled paper sides in a similar design to that of the book; box is sealed by an envelope flap on the bottom edge.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. حمدا لمن ابدع في صفحات المخلوقات على واحدانية قواطع الدلايل والبرهان ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تم بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وكان الفراغ من كتابه في يوم الاحد في 23 شهر ربيع الاول سنة ثمانية وثمانين ومايتين والف. غفر الله لمولفه ولكاتبه ولمن سعى فيه ولجميع المسلمين تمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم.

Medium

  • 75 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 22.5 x 16.5 cm in container 23 x 17 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP133.7.A3 F39 1871

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496257

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Fayyūmī, Aḥmad Ibn Aḥmad, -1658 Or 1659, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Qawl al-tāmm fī bayān aṭwār sayyidinā Ādam ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl. [23 Rabīʻ al-awwal 12 June 1871, 1288] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496257/.

APA citation style:

Fayyūmī, A. I. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1288) Kitāb al-Qawl al-tāmm fī bayān aṭwār sayyidinā Ādam ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl. [23 Rabīʻ al-awwal 12 June 1871] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496257/.

MLA citation style:

Fayyūmī, Aḥmad Ibn Aḥmad, -1658 Or 1659, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Qawl al-tāmm fī bayān aṭwār sayyidinā Ādam ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl. [23 Rabīʻ al-awwal 12 June 1871, 1288] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496257/>.