Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, X8937 Ab9

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DS ID:

DS6727

Shelfmark:

X8937 Ab9

Title:

Kitāb al-tārīkh mimmā taqaddama ʻan al-ābāʼ

Author:

Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, al-Sāmirī, active 1355 / ابو الفتح بن ابي الحسن، السامري، active 1355

Abu l-Fath WIKIDATA

Date:

1750?-1850?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Chiefly Arabic with some Samaritan Aramaic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; 218 x 152 (161 x 102) mm, bound to 220 x 157 mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 17 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh with elements of ruqʻah in black ink, pointed; Samaritan Aramaic in red.
Decoration: Rubrications and tables in red.
Origin: Item is undated, possibly later 18th or 19th century.
Note at the front describing the book and dated 97 (f. 1r).
Shelfmark: X893.7 Ab9.

Keyword:

History

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

tables (documents)

Samaritans

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15467904

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_15467904_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library