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Title

Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-maṭlaʻ al-nayyirayn.
مجمع البحرين ومطلع النيرين

Authors

• Ṭurayḥī, Fakhr al-Dīn, 1571 or 1572-1674 or 1675
  طريحي، فخر الدين،

Other related names

• Levy, Howard S, donor
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 124
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276878102
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms124.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1260 (1844)

Summary

Treatise on the obscure terms in the Qur'an and in Shi'ite Hadiths.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Copy has inscriptions in Arabic script on front pastedown; occasional marginal annotations, and leaf with diagram in Arabic script laid in.
   
• Owner's stamps on last page of text adjacent the colophon (f. 217v).
   

Extent

217, v leaves : 305 x 208 mm bound to 304 x 215 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Full modern brown leather; boards blind tooled with design of intersecting diagonal lines inside a ruled frame; colored patterned cloth spine lining.

Layout

Written in 27 lines per page in black and red ink with headings on the margin; text area blind ruled; head and outer margins blind ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Howard S. Levy to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Howard S. Levy (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Hadith (Shiites)--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-maṭlaʻ al-nayyirayn.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations in ink
• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Title