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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhihi Urjūzah fī ṣifat al-manāzil wa-asmāʼihā wa-awqāt ṭulūʻihā fī al-ʻunṣur هذه أرجوزة في صفة المنازل واسمائها واوقات طلوعها في عنصر

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Title

  • Hādhihi Urjūzah fī ṣifat al-manāzil wa-asmāʼihā wa-awqāt ṭulūʻihā fī al-ʻunṣur

Other Title

  • هذه أرجوزة في صفة المنازل واسمائها واوقات طلوعها في عنصر

Summary

  • Poem with additonal poems on the risings of stars, the calendar and the comparison between Coptic and Greek calendars.

Names

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

Created / Published

  • [17th century]

Contents

  • Fol. 1b-3a. Urjūzah fī ṣifat al-manāzil wa-asmāʼihā wa-awqāt ṭulūʻihā fī al-ʻunṣur -- fol. 3a-3b. Tasmīyat shahr al-Qibṭ -- fol. 3b-4a. Madkhal shuhūr al-Rūm fī al-Qibṭ -- fol. 4a-4b. Poem on the confusion between al-ḍād and al-ẓāʼ.

Headings

  • -  Calendar--Early works to 1800
  • -  Months--Early works to 1800
  • -  Arabic language--Phonetics--Early works to 1800
  • -  Ḍād (The Arabic letter)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Ẓāʾ (The Arabic letter)--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 identified; possibly Egypt.
  • -  Paper; heavy, unpolished medium 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.
  • -  Naskh; 23 lines in written area 16 x 8.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-4b.
  • -  "85. IX 821 = 5.776."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-776.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله الذي ابدع ما، في الارض وما فيها من تحت السما ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت بحمد الله وعونه.

Medium

  • 4 leaves (23 lines), paper : bound ; 24 x 17.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • CE51 .U75 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503185

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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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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Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Urjūzah fī ṣifat al-manāzil wa-asmāʼihā wa-awqāt ṭulūʻihā fī al-ʻunṣur. [17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503185/.

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Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Urjūzah fī ṣifat al-manāzil wa-asmāʼihā wa-awqāt ṭulūʻihā fī al-ʻunṣur. [17th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503185/.

MLA citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Urjūzah fī ṣifat al-manāzil wa-asmāʼihā wa-awqāt ṭulūʻihā fī al-ʻunṣur. [17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503185/>.