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Title

Majmūʻah.
[مجموعة]

Authors

• Zarnūjī, Burhān al-Dīn, active 12th century-13th century
  زرنوجي، برهان الدين،
• Turkistānī, ʻAlī al-Dīn
  تركستاني، علي الدين
• Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn
  فراهي، ابو نصر محمد بدر الدين
• Ṭanṭarānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Razzāq, active 11th century
  طنطراني، احمد بن عبد الرزاق،
• Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261
  رازي، محمد بن ابي بكر،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Mushtāq, Muḥammad ʻAlī, former owner
  مشتاق، محمد علي.
• Khouri, Elias Alexander, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 33
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2441543
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083644893
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2441543

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic and Persian

Origin

Date

between 1675 and 1750?

Summary

Collection of nine different works in different hands, in both Arabic and Persian. Several blank leaves between each work or set of works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Two owner's stamps with the names Aḥmad and Jalāl visible (flyleaf 2 recto).
   

Extent

81 leaves : 203 x 114 (145 x 68) mm bound to 200 x 117 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Blind stamped central mandorla on front and back with coordinating stamp on flap. Gold tooled frame and mandorla outline. Light green doublure.

Layout

Prose sections, 19 long lines; poetry sections, 15 lines in two columns or with staggered lines. Frame ruled with a misṭarah.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Some pages are border-ruled in red. Some headings are set off by blue rules.

Script

Chiefly written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī Mushtāq (stamp f. 1v).
   
• Formerly owned by Elias A. Khouri (note in pencil flyleaf 1 recto at front of book).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Dictionaries--Persian--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Arabic poetry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Poems
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Majmūʻah].
• fol. 1v — Taʻlīm al-mutaʻallim fī ṭarīq al-taʻallum / Burhān al-Dīn al-Zarnūjī
• fol. 31v — Chahal kalimah
• fol. 37v — Qaṣīdah / ʻAlī al-Dīn al-Turkistānī
• fol. 41v — Qaṣīdat Yaqūlu al-ʻabd
• fol. 44r — [Selection of sayings in prose from the Prophet and Imams]
• fol. 51v — Niṣāb al-ṣibyān / Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn al-Farāhī
• fol. 71v — al-Qaṣīdah al-Ṭanṭarānīyah / Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṭanṭarānī
• fol. 75r — al-Qaṣīdah al-Naẓīrah
• fol. 80v — [Selection from Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ with the heading Qāʻidat al-nafīsah]

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Owner's stamp: "Muḥammad ʻAlī Mushtāq"