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Manuscript/Mixed Material Aṭbāq al-dhahab : al-Kashkūl اطباق الذهب : الكشكول / / Kashkūl

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Title

  • Aṭbāq al-dhahab : al-Kashkūl

Other Title

  • اطباق الذهب : الكشكول /
  • Kashkūl

Summary

  • A commonplace book begining with Iṣfahānī's Aṭbāq al-dhahab, and including ʻAli-Riḍā ibn Mūsá's al-Risālah al-dhahabīyah; interspersed with snippets from other works, comments, anecdotes, miscellaneous facts on various subjects.

Names

  • Iṣfahānī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Hibat Allāh, -1203 or 1204
  • ʻAlī al-Riḍā ibn Mūsá, -818 or 819
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 13 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1284 [6 April 1868]

Headings

  • -  Islam--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islamic sermons--Early works to 1800
  • -  Medicine, Arab
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic and Persian.
  • -  Date from the colophon of al-Risālah al-dhahabīyah.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; commercial cream color paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication in some sections; heavily annotated in margins; text on many pages runs in opposite diagonal directions; catchwords on some pages.
  • -  Naskh (Arabic sections), nastaʻliq (Persian sections); Aṭbāq al-dhahab has 11 lines in written area 14.5 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-167b.
  • -  "87. X [888] = 5.822."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-822.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.

Medium

  • 167 leaves (various numbers of lines), paper : bound ; 22.5 x 16 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP88.I78 A83 1868

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496480

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

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:

Iṣfahānī, ʻAbd Al-MuʼMin Ibn Hibat Allāh, -1203 Or 1204, -818 Or 819 ʻAlī Al-Riḍā Ibn Mūsá, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Aṭbāq al-dhahab: al-Kashkūl. [13 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 6 April 1868, 1284] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496480/.

APA citation style:

Iṣfahānī, ʻ. A. I. H. A., ʻAlī Al-Riḍā Ibn Mūsá, -. O. 8., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1284) Aṭbāq al-dhahab: al-Kashkūl. [13 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 6 April 1868] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496480/.

MLA citation style:

Iṣfahānī, ʻAbd Al-MuʼMin Ibn Hibat Allāh, -1203 Or 1204, et al. Aṭbāq al-dhahab: al-Kashkūl. [13 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 6 April 1868, 1284] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496480/>.