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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-Nafḥah al-miskīyah wa-tuḥfah al-Makkīyah كتاب النفحة المسكية وتحفة المكية / / Nafḥah al-miskīyah wa-tuḥfah al-Makkīyah

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Title

  • Kitāb al-Nafḥah al-miskīyah wa-tuḥfah al-Makkīyah

Other Title

  • كتاب النفحة المسكية وتحفة المكية /
  • Nafḥah al-miskīyah wa-tuḥfah al-Makkīyah

Summary

  • Short treatise on Arabic grammar, rhetoric and versification; arranged in columns and rows which can be red horizontally or perpendicularly.

Names

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

Created / Published

  • [late 17th century]

Headings

  • -  Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
  • -  Arabic language--Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
  • -  Arabic language--Versification--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; cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines and a watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size; black and red ink; arranged in a tabular format.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 157.291
  • -  Naskh; table 19 x 14 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-10a.
  • -  "87. X [881] = 5.826."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-826.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه الاعانة وعليه التكلان وهو حسبي ونعم الوكيل.
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... وذلك في شهر الله رجب، في يوم الاربعاء الثاني والعشرين منه سنة تسع وستين وثمان ماية ... فاذ قرا السطر الى اخره على الترتيب العهودفهي رسالة فيعلم النحو فاعلم ذلك.

Medium

  • 10 leaves (arranged in a table), paper : bound ; 22.8 x 16.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6101 .S985 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503056

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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:

Suyūṭī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Nafḥah al-miskīyah wa-tuḥfah al-Makkīyah. [Late 17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503056/.

APA citation style:

Suyūṭī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Nafḥah al-miskīyah wa-tuḥfah al-Makkīyah. [Late 17th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503056/.

MLA citation style:

Suyūṭī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Nafḥah al-miskīyah wa-tuḥfah al-Makkīyah. [Late 17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503056/>.