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Kitāb Badīʻ al-inshāʼ wa-al-ṣifāt fī al-mukātabāt wa-al-murāsalāt.
كتاب بديع الانشاء والصفات في المكاتبات والمراسلات.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 162
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Karmī, Marʻī ibn Yūsuf, -1623 or 1624.
- Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
- Standardized Title:
- Badīʻ al-inshāʼ wa-al-ṣifāt fī al-mukātabāt wa-al-murāsalāt
- بديع الانشاء والصفات في المكاتبات والمراسلات
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Letter writing, Arabic.
- Letter writing, Arabic--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- 46 leaves : paper ; 207 x 150 (175 x 120 and 150 x 95) mm bound to 210 x 160 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1750 and 1850?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Copy of a work of advice on letter writing with examples, preceded by a poem in the same hand.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 5r).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red.
- Binding: Bound in red leather over pasteboard; blind-tooled design of eight straight lines intersecting in the middle surrounded by two frames made of a repeating square pattern; light blue paper doublure.
- Origin: The copy is undated, but was perhaps produced in the late 18th or 19th century.
- Notations with tallies (f. 46v).
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 162
- OCLC:
- 1131863545
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