Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn ʻan arbaʻīn min arbaʻīn li-arbaʻīn fī arbaʻīn / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥaddith al-Shām Nāṣir al-Sunnah afḍal al-Mutaʼakhkhirīn awḥad al-ʻUlamāʼ ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAsākir al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʻī / كتاب الاربعين عن اربعين من اربعين لاربعين في اربعين / تأليف الإمام الحافظ محدث الشام ناصر السنة افضل المتأخرين اوحد العلماء علي بن الحسن بن هبة الله بن عبد الله بن الحسين بن عساكر الدمشقي الشافعي
Written in one column, from 17 to 23 lines per page, in black. According to a note on f. 39r, copy completed on 13 Ramaḍān 686 AH [October 21, 1287 AD] in the mosque of Damascus from the copy of al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū ... al-Birzālī. Bound in brown morocco, stamped in blind. Ownership statement on inside front cover signed Benjamin Duprat (Librarian of the French Institute of the Imperial Library). With this is bound: Juzʻ fīhi ʻAsharat majālis min amālī al-Shaykh al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Khallāl (ff. 41r-58v) -- Juzʼ fīhi Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (ff. 63r-77r) -- Juzʼ fīhi thamānūn ḥadīthan ʻan thamānīna shaykhan / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (ff. 81r-96v) -- Juzʼ fīhi aḥādīth Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn... Purchased by the Harvard Semitic Museum in 19-- (accession no. 587). Semitic Museum deposit, ca. 1959.
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