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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhihi Risālah ʻalá al-Basmalah al-shaīfah هذه رسالة على البسملة الشريفة / / Risālah fī al-Basmalah li-Ismāʻīl ibn Ghunaym al-Jawharī

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Title

  • Hādhihi Risālah ʻalá al-Basmalah al-shaīfah

Other Title

  • هذه رسالة على البسملة الشريفة /
  • 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

  • 10 Shawwāl 1190 [22 November 1776]

Headings

  • -  Basmalah--Early works to 1800
  • -  God (Islam)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Rashīdī/
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; unpolished, yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 422
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 15 x 11 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-10a.
  • -  "H-0197 = 1.213."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-213.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى وصحبه وسلم. 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: كان الفراغ من كتابة هذه النسخة المباركة في يوم الجمعة المبارك العاشر من شهر شوال المعظم قد هو من شهور سنة 1190 على يد العبد الفقير عبد الفتاح الرشيدي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن نظر فيهاعلنا واصله امين امين.

Medium

  • 10 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 24 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP183.7.B3 J39 1776

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481511

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:

Jawharī, IsmāʻĪl Ibn Ghunaym, -1751 Or 1752, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Risālah ʻalá al-Basmalah al-shaīfah. [10 Shawwāl 22 November 1776, 1776] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481511/.

APA citation style:

Jawharī, I. I. G., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1776) Hādhihi Risālah ʻalá al-Basmalah al-shaīfah. [10 Shawwāl 22 November 1776] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481511/.

MLA citation style:

Jawharī, IsmāʻĪl Ibn Ghunaym, -1751 Or 1752, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Risālah ʻalá al-Basmalah al-shaīfah. [10 Shawwāl 22 November 1776, 1776] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481511/>.