Manuscript codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Layout: 24-26 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; mostly unpointed.

Decoration: Titles in larger script.

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).

Shelfmark: X893.7 Ib66.

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).

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.

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Martinovitch, Nicholas N. "Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Columbia University Library." Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 49, (1929), p. 225.

Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Purchased in Cairo by Richard Gottheil through the Alexander I. Cotheal fund in 1896 (note in pencil laid in and library bookplate inside front cover).

Or. 12.644 ([A fragment only of Taʼrikh Madinat Dimashq]); also located at; Leiden University Library, Special Collections.

Arabic.

Bound in modern cardboard half covers with marbled paper sides, red leather spine and corners; same marbled paper pastedowns.

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