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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī sharḥ manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻArabī fī ʻilm al-ḥurūf رسالة في شرح منظومة ابن العربي في علم الحروف

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Title

  • Risālah fī sharḥ manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻArabī fī ʻilm al-ḥurūf

Other Title

  • رسالة في شرح منظومة ابن العربي في علم الحروف

Summary

  • Treatise on numerology in the form of a commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's poem Kashf al-rān.

Names

  • Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century?]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-ʻArabī,--1165-1240.--Qaṣīdat Kashf al-rān
  • -  Numerology
  • -  Gematria
  • -  Sufism
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from cover.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; thick, unpolished cream color laid paper with vertical chain lines and several armorial watermarks; black ink with minimal rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 17.5 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Grid diagrams on fol. 2b, 4b, 5a, 5b and 6b.
  • -  Fol. 1b-7b.
  • -  "81. IX 671 = 5.620."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-620.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه الاعانة. حمد لمن جعل قلوب الهلاماء بيتا لاسرار حروف الهجا ... اما بعد فلما كان كلام الشيخ ابن العربي في رسالته كشف الراي على المربع العددي في غاية الخفاء ...
  • -  Explicit/colophon: والحمد لله اولا واخرا ظاهرا وباطنا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وسلم.

Medium

  • 7 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 25.2 x 17.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ7755.I175 Q2737 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496977

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:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī sharḥ manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻArabī fī ʻilm al-ḥurūf. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496977/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī sharḥ manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻArabī fī ʻilm al-ḥurūf. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496977/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī sharḥ manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻArabī fī ʻilm al-ḥurūf. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496977/>.