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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhihi Muqaddimah fī al-takbīr هذه مقدمة في التكبير / / Muqaddimah fī al-takbīr lil-Shaykh Sulṭān

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Title

  • Hādhihi Muqaddimah fī al-takbīr

Other Title

  • هذه مقدمة في التكبير /
  • Muqaddimah fī al-takbīr lil-Shaykh Sulṭān

Names

  • Sulṭān, Shaykh
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century?]

Headings

  • -  Qurʼan--Readings--Early works to 1800
  • -  Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh,--1144-1194
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Section of a collection of treatises; only the Muqaddimah of Shaykh Sulṭan is present in this volume.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; stiff, yellowed medium cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink; fol. 11 was completed in a different hand, about the same time as the rest of the manuscript; catchwords.
  • -  Treatise on the seven or ten readings of the Qurʼān by the otherwise unidentified Shaykh Sulṭān.
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 15.5 x 10.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-11b.
  • -  "4. I 274 = 1.247."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-247.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله الذي اخرجنا من العدم الى الوجود وارشدنا للحق عن كل دين مردود ... وبعدفهذه نبذة يسيرة وفواعد عزيزة تشتمل على معرفة ما يتعلق بجميعاوجو التكبير للقرا السبعة من طريق الشاطبية ومن طريق الدرة ه__ العشرة ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محم\ وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين. تمت بحمد الله وعونه.

Medium

  • 11 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 22.5 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP131.5 .S85 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496993

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:

Sulṭān, Shaykh, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Muqaddimah fī al-takbīr. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496993/.

APA citation style:

Sulṭān, S., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Muqaddimah fī al-takbīr. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496993/.

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Sulṭān, Shaykh, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Muqaddimah fī al-takbīr. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496993/>.