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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhihi Risālah laṭīfah fī kalām ʻalá al-Basmalah هذه رسالة لطيفة في كلام على البسملة / / Risālah fī al-Basmalah li-Ismāʻīl ibn Ghunaym al-Jawharī

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Title

  • Hādhihi Risālah laṭīfah fī kalām ʻalá al-Basmalah

Other Title

  • هذه رسالة لطيفة في كلام على البسملة /
  • Risālah fī al-Basmalah li-Ismāʻīl ibn Ghunaym al-Jawharī

Summary

  • Treatise on the Basmalah.

Names

  • Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ghunaym, -1751 or 1752
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [early 19th century]

Headings

  • -  Basmalah--Early works to 1800
  • -  God (Islam)--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; unpolished, yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with minimal rubrication and overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 422
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 17 x 12.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-8a.
  • -  "H-0196 = 1.212."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-212.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. حمدا لمانح البيان وفاتح ابواب التبيان، وصلاة وسلاما على من امر بتجويد البسملة، وعلى اله واصحابه الحائزين في كل فضل لحمده. وبعد، فيقول العبد الفقير الى المولى الكبير اسماعيل بن الشيخ غنيم الجوهري ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: تمت هذه الرسالة بحمد الله وعونه وصلى الله على من لا نبي بعده وسلم امين.

Medium

  • 8 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 21.3 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP183.7.B3 J39 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481510

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Jawharī, IsmāʻĪl Ibn Ghunaym, -1751 Or 1752, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Risālah laṭīfah fī kalām ʻalá al-Basmalah. [Early 19th Century, 1800] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481510/.

APA citation style:

Jawharī, I. I. G., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1800) Hādhihi Risālah laṭīfah fī kalām ʻalá al-Basmalah. [Early 19th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481510/.

MLA citation style:

Jawharī, IsmāʻĪl Ibn Ghunaym, -1751 Or 1752, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Risālah laṭīfah fī kalām ʻalá al-Basmalah. [Early 19th Century, 1800] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481510/>.