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Manuscript/Mixed Material Khazāʼin al-jawāhir wa-makhāzin al-zawāhir خزائن الجواهير ومخازن الزواهر / Risālah fī al-basmalah li-Abī Saʻīd Muḥammad al-Khādimī / Risālat al-basmalah

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Title

  • Khazāʼin al-jawāhir wa-makhāzin al-zawāhir

Other Title

  • خزائن الجواهير ومخازن الزواهر
  • Risālah fī al-basmalah li-Abī Saʻīd Muḥammad al-Khādimī
  • Risālat al-basmalah

Summary

  • Sufi treatise on the basmalah.

Names

  • Khādimī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, 1701 or 1702-1762 or 1763
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Headings

  • -  Basmalah--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
  • -  Sufism--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1b.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; light cream color laid paper with faint horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication and overlining; fol. 1b and fol. 12a-22b only text is within a ruled border of a single red line and on fol. 1b the text is preceded by an X design in a rectangular section of the block; no catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 664.4
  • -  Published as Risālat al-basmalah, Istanbul, 1845
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 15 x 7.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-32b.
  • -  "3. I. 212 = 1.215."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-215.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وعليه اعتمادي. بسم الله الذي جعل البسملة شريعة الافتناح الرحمن الذي جعل لوصول كل بركة هو اامفتاح، الرحيم الذي جعلها لقاصد كل خير النجاح ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... ثم العبد يصرفها من عنده الى كل واحد من الفعل والترك على سبيل البدل ويرجح بها احد المتساوبين على آخر وهذا اتصرف اعني.

Medium

  • 32 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 20.7 x 15.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP183.7.B3 K43 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496485

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:

Khādimī, Muḥammad Ibn Muṣṭafá, 1701 Or Or 1763, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Khazāʼin Al-Jawāhir Wa-Makhāzin Al-Zawāhir. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496485/.

APA citation style:

Khādimī, M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Khazāʼin Al-Jawāhir Wa-Makhāzin Al-Zawāhir. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496485/.

MLA citation style:

Khādimī, Muḥammad Ibn Muṣṭafá, 1701 Or Or 1763, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Khazāʼin Al-Jawāhir Wa-Makhāzin Al-Zawāhir. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496485/>.