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Kitāb Bulghat al-ḥāfiẓ wa-balāghat al-lāfiẓ.
كتاب بلغة الحافظ وبلاغة اللافظ.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 163
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Qanawī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, -after 1736 or 1737.
- Standardized Title:
- Bulghat al-ḥāfiẓ wa-balāghat al-lāfiẓ
- بلغة الحافظ وبلاغة اللافظ
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Letter writing, Arabic.
- Letter writing, Arabic--Early works to 1800.
- Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800.
- Islam--Customs and practices.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
- Physical Description:
- 21 leaves : paper ; 208 x 149 (165 x 110 and 150 x 95) mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1850?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Loose leaf copy of a work of advice on letter writing followed by a list of 54 religious duties (farīḍah) attributed to Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, copied in a different hand.
- Contents:
- f. 1r-17r: Kitāb Bulghat al-ḥāfiẓ wa-balāghat al-lāfiẓ
- 2. f. 17v-21v: Arbaʻah wa-khamsūn farīḍah / Ḥasan al-Baṣrī.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: First work written in 22 long lines; second work written in 33 long, closely written lines copied at an angle across the page.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red.
- Binding: Leaves are unbound; held in a paper folder.
- Origin: The copy is undated, but was perhaps produced in the 18th or 19th century.
- On approval notice between Luzac and Co. and the Königliche Bibliothek Berlin, dated 7 April 1913 laid in.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 163
- Contains:
- Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, 641 or 642-728 or 729. Farāʼiḍ.
- حسن البصري، 641 or 642-728 or 729. فرائض.
- OCLC:
- 1131862407
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