al-Juzʼ... min kitāb Tārīkh madīnat Dimashq.
الجزء...من كتاب تاريخ مدينة دمشق
Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Published
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approximately 1141.
- Summary
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Parts 325-333 of the history of the city of Damascus by Ibn ʻAsākir, contains parts of the sections on people with the name ʻUthmān; includes several readers' notes and transmission notes. The leaves have been silked and remounted onto pages measuring 267 x 178 mm.
- Note
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Miscellaneous notes laid in at end. The exhibition label from the 2012-2013 Chang Octagon exhibition "Collecting Oriental Books for the Columbia University Libraries, 1886-1936" was written by Dagmar A. Riedel.
Readers' notes and transmission notes (f. 20r-20v, 22r, 41r-42r, 61r-61v, 63r, 82r-82v, 84r, 103r-104v, 105r, 124r-124v, 126r, 145r-145v, 147r, 166r-167r, 186r-186v).
Shelfmark: X893.7 Ib66.
Origin: The item is undated, though transmission notes place the copy in the 12th century; the first transmission note says the copy was heard read by the author on 21 Rabīʻ al-Awwal in the Mosque of Damascus in 536 AH (31 October 1141 CE) (f. 20r).
Decoration: Titles in larger script.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; mostly unpointed.
Layout: 24-26 long lines.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Manuscript codex.
- Physical Description
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iv, 202, iv leaves :
laid paper ;
235 x 160 (195 x 127 ) mm, bound to 277 x 195 mm
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