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Kitāb al-barakah [electronic resource].
كتاب البركة
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ḥubayshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1313-1380.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic ethics.
- Barakah--Early works to 1800.
- Barakah.
- Genre:
- Fascimiles.
- Islamic bindings (Binding)
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 17th century.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ii, 157, i, paginated leaves).
- Other Title:
- بركة في فضل السعي والحركة وما ينجي باذن الله تعالى من الهلكة.
- Place of Publication:
- [Morocco?], [between 1600 and 1799?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- About the blessings of various occupations.
- Notes:
- Title from introduction (p. 3)
- Pagination in pencil, upper outer corners (1-314); catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: Written in 26 long lines; poetry in two columns.
- Script: Written in maghribī in dark brown ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandola and blind tooled and stamped frames.
- Origin: Item is undated, but likely copied in the 17th or 18th century.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 300 x 210 (240 x 150) mm bound to 300 x 222 mm.
- Watermark: Horse with ribbons, head turned to look over its back, crescent moon shape on its flank; initials CR.
- Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2019.
- Cited as:
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 29-201-705
- Contains:
- Barakah fī faḍl al-saʻy wa-al-ḥarakah wa-mā yunajjī bi-idhn Allāh taʻālá min al-halakah.
- بركة في فضل السعي والحركة وما ينجي باذن الله تعالى من الهلكة.
- OCLC:
- 1111628020
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