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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī al-ḥamd رسالة في الحمد / / Title on fol. 1a: Maʻná al-ḥamd

About this Item

Title

  • Risālah fī al-ḥamd

Other Title

  • رسالة في الحمد /
  • Title on fol. 1a: Maʻná al-ḥamd

Summary

  • Treatise on the phrase "al-Ḥamdu li-llāh".

Names

  • Ṣafawī, ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad, 1494 or 1495-1546 or 1547
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Headings

  • -  Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from cover.
  • -  Scribe not identifed.
  • -  Leaves 3, 12, and 19-24 on newer paper in a later hand.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; yellowed, unpolished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; oldest sections of manuscript have dark dampstain on lower half of the pages; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 594.3
  • -  Naskh; 27 lines in written area 14 x 8.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-24b.
  • -  "3. I 217 = 1.220."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-220.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملةز وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد واله. قال شيخنا الاوحد الامام الحجة التمام سيد المحققين وسند المدققين السيد الشريف عيسى الصفوي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ولله الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهه ولرسوله وصحببه الصلاة والسلام.

Medium

  • 24 leaves (27 lines), paper : bound ; 22.5 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP183.3 .S24 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496872

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

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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:

Ṣafawī, ʻĪsá Ibn Muḥammad, 1494 Or Or 1547, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Ḥamd. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496872/.

APA citation style:

Ṣafawī, ʻ. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Ḥamd. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496872/.

MLA citation style:

Ṣafawī, ʻĪsá Ibn Muḥammad, 1494 Or Or 1547, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Ḥamd. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496872/>.