A collection containing: 1. A fragment of Īḍāḥ al-waqf wa-al-ibtidāʼ, a work on the pauses to be observed in the reading of the Koran, by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Bashshār al-Naḥwī al-Anbārī, A.H. 328 [A.D. 940]. See Fihrist p. 75. This copy is probably from XIIIth century. Fols. 36; 18 x 13.8 cm.; written surface 13.5 x 11 cm.; 17 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red. A few marginal notes. 2. A work by Abū Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Faqīh containing the names of the transmitters of tradition in the Musnad of Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Baqī ibn Makhlad, A.H. 276 [A.D. 889]. Copied A.H. 784 [A.D. 1383] by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Nābulusī. Fols. 11; 18.7 x 13.8 cm.; written surface 14.8 x 9.7 cm.; 18 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red. Marginal notes and glosses. On the page and three folios following the colophon is a discussion of the legality of wearing silver rings, entitled Masʼalah fī al-takhattum bi-al-fiḍḍah, and of other legal problems. 3. al-Ajwibah al-zakīyah ʻan al-alghāz al-Subkīyah, a treatise on jurisprudence by al-Suyūṭī, A.H. 911 [A.D. 1505]. It is stated in the preface that in A.H. 876 [A.D. 1472] Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Sūdūn al-Ḥanafīi encountered some questions of jurisprudence sent in A.H. 761 [A.D. 1360] by al-Subkī to Ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī in 24 verses of poetry, but that Ibn Sūdūn did not find al-Ṣafadīʼs answer... Fols. 6; 18.1 x 13.5 cm.; written surface 13.2 x 9.4 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red. 4. Tarjamat al-Sayyidah Nafīsah, a biography of Nafīsah A.H. 145-208 [A.D. 762/3-824], daughter of al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Sibṭ ibn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. This copy was made A.H. 916 [A.D. 1510] for Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al- Hilālī. Fols. 10; 17.6 x 13.3 cm.; written surface 13.3 x 9.3 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic per; in naskhi; with few vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red. 5. Mukhtaṣar min kutub al-maʻānī fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān wa-gharībih, a treatise by al-Najīramī explaining the uncommon words which occur in the Koran. This copy was made A.H. 877 [A.D. 1472] by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Shāhīn al-Dhahabī from an old copy dated A.H. 587 [A.D. 1191]. Fols. 16; 18 x 13.8 cm.; written surface 17.2 x 12.5 cm.; 39-42 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; entries in red. A few marginal notes and glosses. Title given in the colophon as Gharīb al-Qurʼān. 6. A fragment of a work on the biographies of the Companions of the Prophet. Fols. 16; 18.5 x 12.6 cm.; written surface 15.5 x 10 cm.; 25 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi. A few marginal notes and glosses. Copy probably from XVIth century. MS in fair condition; stained with dampness; Arabic binding with flap. Acquired from Bārūārūdi, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
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