Manuscript/Mixed Material Faṣl fī uṣūl khalq ibrāʼ Adam فصل في اصول خلق ابرء ادم

Title

• Faṣl fī uṣūl khalq ibrāʼ Adam

Other Title

• فصل في اصول خلق ابرء ادم

Summary

• Brief treatise on the creation of man and the subsequent history of the world.

Names

• Dukur, Muḥammad, author
• Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866
• Benson, Stephen Allen, 1816-1865
• American Ethnological Society
• Omar ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• [between 1855 and 1865?]

Headings

• -  Creation (Islam)
• -  Human beings--Origin
• -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
• -  Arabic.
• -  Title from fol. 2a.
• -  Written by Marmorra Dooqueah.
• -  On front cover; "No. 2, T. Dwight" and partial pasted label "Theodore Dwi___, Recdg. Secty. Am. Eth___, New York, U.S.A."
• -  On back cover: top, "Written by Marmorra Dooqueah" at bottom, "From Stephen A Benson"
• -  Purchased from Sotheby's London, 30 June 2017.
• -  Probably written in Liberia.
• -  Paper; ivory colored paper; darl brown ink with rubrication.
• -  African style Maghribī script (12 lines) in written area 17.5 x 12 cm.
• -  Fol. 1 (blank), fol. 2b-11b.
• -  Bound in heavy brown paper; cover partially torn, many leaves separated from binding.
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
• -  Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. صلى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه وعلى اله واصحابه وسلم تسليما. فصل في اصول خلق ابراء ادام ...
• -  Explicit/Colophon: الحمد لله رب العلمين.

Medium

• 12 leaves (12 lines), paper : bound ; 20 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• E445.N8 O43, no. 34

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amedsaid1831.dw034

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2018371865

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2018371865

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