Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-ʻAbbās, -688?, attributed name
  عبد الله بن العباس،

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2460534
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104210400
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_170.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2460534

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Language

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

Summary

Unbound copy of the story of the People of the Cave, known in other traditions as the Seven Sleepers. The text begins with "Qāla Ibn ʻAbbās", and is a retelling and explanation of the tale as it appears in the Qurʼān in sūrah 18 at the end. The final leaf is smaller paper (155 x 130 (140 x 110) mm); the recto of that leaf and the previous half page is an addition in a different hand with the verso of the final leaf written in Persian.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title.
   
• Incipit: Kāna fī madīnat Ṭarṭūs fī nāḥiyat al-Shām qadīm al-ayyām malik yuqālu la-hu Daqiyānūs.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Subjects topical

• Qurʼan stories
• Islamic legends
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Islamic legends
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Qurʼan stories

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Gatherings (gathered matter components)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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