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Manuscript/Mixed Material Daraj al-maʻālī fī sharḥ qaṣīdat Badʼ al-amālī fi al-aqāyid درج المعالي في شرح قصيدة بدء الامالي ف الاقايد

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Title

  • Daraj al-maʻālī fī sharḥ qaṣīdat Badʼ al-amālī fi al-aqāyid

Other Title

  • درج المعالي في شرح قصيدة بدء الامالي ف الاقايد

Summary

  • Commentary on al-Ūshī's poem Badʼ al-amālī on Islamic doctrines.

Names

  • Ibn Jamāʻah, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, 1347?-1416 or 1417
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • not after 29 Jumādá al-ūlá 1152 [not after] 3 September 1739]

Headings

  • -  Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān,--active 12th century.--Badʼ al-amālī
  • -  Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic; comments at end in Persian; verse immediately following colophon in Turkish (Arabic script).
  • -  Caption title.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Date in ownership statement on fol. 1a 29 Jumādá al-ūlá 1152.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines; no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication and some overlining; text of the poem in larger letters followed by commentary in smaller letters; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SI, p. 764
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 18.5 x 8 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-11a., lower part of 11a and all of 11b contain notes in Persian.
  • -  "H-0345 = 3.85."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-085.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله رب العالمين قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة عز الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن جماعة ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: قد تم الشرح المبارك

Medium

  • 11 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ;

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP165.5.U823 I265 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481517

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:

Ibn JamāʻAh, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr, 1347?-1416 Or 1417, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Daraj al-maʻālī fī sharḥ qaṣīdat Badʼ al-amālī fi al-aqāyid. [not after 29 Jumādá al-ūlá not after 3 September 1739, 1152] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481517/.

APA citation style:

Ibn JamāʻAh, M. I. A. B., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1152) Daraj al-maʻālī fī sharḥ qaṣīdat Badʼ al-amālī fi al-aqāyid. [not after 29 Jumādá al-ūlá not after 3 September 1739] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481517/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn JamāʻAh, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr, 1347?-1416 Or 1417, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Daraj al-maʻālī fī sharḥ qaṣīdat Badʼ al-amālī fi al-aqāyid. [not after 29 Jumādá al-ūlá not after 3 September 1739, 1152] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481517/>.