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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>iv, 126, vi leaves : 205 x 149 (145 x 100) mm, bound to 207 x 152 mm</dd>
<dd>Collection of works bound together and copied in the same hand. The first six works discuss Arabic grammar and composition. The 7th and 8th works relate to reading and recitation of the Qurʼān. The final work deals with the rising and settings of the moon and planets and astronomy</dd>
<dd>Manuscript codex</dd>
<dd>Title supplied by cataloger</dd>
<dd>1. f. 1v-95r: Sharḥ al-qaṣīdah al-lāmīyah al-musammāh Abnīyat al-afʻāl fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf lil-Imām Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mālik -- 2. f. 95v-96r: [Qaṣīdah] / Ibn al-Ḥājib al-Naḥwī -- 3. f. 96r-97r: [Qaṣīdah] / ʻIzz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Rizq Allāh ibn Abī Bakr al-Rasʻanī -- 4. f. 97r: [Ḥikāyah: kāna rajulan bi-al-Baṣrah yulaqqabu al-Ḍādī] -- 5. f. 97v: Min kitāb Dīwān al-adab -- 6. f. 97v-115r : Ikhtiyār faṣīḥ al-kalām / Abū al-ʻAbbās Thaʻlab -- 7. f. 116r : Fī qism al-ghanīmah / Sālim ibn Ghassān al-Luwāḥ -- 8. f. 116r-119v : [Fī qirāʼāt al-Qurʼān] -- 9. 119v-126v: Fī maʻrifat manāzil al-qamar</dd>
<dd>Layout: 17-19 long lines; some poetry in two columns</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Rubrications in red; some red circles with black dots in the middle punctuate the text; sets of three red dots mark lines of poetry; three tables in red and black (f. 123v-124v)</dd>
<dd>Origin: Copy completed between Shawwāl 1123 (f. 95r) and Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1124 (f. 115r)</dd>
<dd>Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap; blind stamped central mandorla, four pendants along the vertical axis and cornerpieces with matching stamps on the flap</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 358</dd>
<dd>Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith</dd>
<dd>Formerly owned by Mohammed bin Hamed bu Osman; given to Alexander Cotheal in June 1852 (note in pencil on inside back cover)</dd>
<dd>Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamps f. 1r, 126v)</dd>
<dd>Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description</dd>
<dd>Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR</dd>
<dd><b>Columbia University Catalog: </b>&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642747">http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642747</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;go to CLIO&lt;/a&gt;</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Qurʼan -- Readings -- Early works to 1800; Qurʼan -- Recitation -- Early works to 1800; Qurʼan; Arabic language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Arabic; Arabic language -- Grammar; Astronomy, Arab</div>
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