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According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār. The manuscript contains an introduction, two chapters, and an epilogue. On fol. 1a is a table of written numbers for use in official documents as well as verses (in code?). On fol. 33b, verse 6:115 of the Qur'an is written in another hand.
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Paper: yellowed cream with watermarks, split from spine; termite damage; affected by humidity at bottom of pages, and brown stains on the last page. Text framed by double brown line. Text principally in black, with a few rubricated words. Calculations and notes in margin in brown ink; catchwords on rectos.
Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-712.
Text is in Nastaʻliq script, with Diwani script on title page including a table of numbers from 1 to 100,000, and a verse from the Qur'an in Thuluth script on fol. 33b.
Fol. 1a-33b.
Binding: old torn cardboard with leather spine and edges; spine broken into two.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Arabic.
Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection,1945.
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