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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Mā rawāhu al-wāʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn كتاب ما رواه الواعون في اخبار الطاعون / / Mā rawāhu al-wāʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn lil-Suyūṭī

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Title

  • Kitāb Mā rawāhu al-wāʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn

Other Title

  • كتاب ما رواه الواعون في اخبار الطاعون /
  • Mā rawāhu al-wāʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn lil-Suyūṭī

Summary

  • Brief treatise about the plague.

Names

  • Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century]

Headings

  • -  Plague--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; dark cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 183.32
  • -  Naskh; 23 lines in written area 16 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-11b.
  • -  "9. II 661 = 1.308."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-308.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. قال السيخ الامام العالم العلامى جلال الدين الاسيوطي الشافعي رحمه الله تعالى الحمد لله مقدر الازراق والاجال والصلاة على سيدنا والصحب الاول. هذا جزي انتخب فيه ما ورد من اخبار الطاعون ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ايها الرسل كلوا من الطيبات واعلموا صالحا اي بما تعلمون علسم وان هذه امتكم امة واحية وانا ربك فاتقون والله اعلم.

Medium

  • 11 leaves (23 lines), paper : bound ; 22.3 x 16.4 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RC179.I6 S89 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503048

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:

Suyūṭī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Mā rawāhu al-wāʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn. [18th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503048/.

APA citation style:

Suyūṭī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Mā rawāhu al-wāʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn. [18th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503048/.

MLA citation style:

Suyūṭī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Mā rawāhu al-wāʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn. [18th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503048/>.