Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 118

Former shelfmark

Total pages

92 fols

Folio measures

233x146 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Fol. 1v

Attributed Title

al-Ǧild al-awwal li-l-Kirmānī Šarḥ al-Buḫārī

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Dévényi, Kinga, Munif Abdul-Fattah, and Katalin Fiedler, eds. Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Islamic Manauscripts and Books 9. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2016

Descriptive card

25 lines/page : illuminated headpiece on fol. 1v in gold, red and grey ink. Marginal notes in Arabic in black and red ink. The manuscript was donated to the Library by Abd al-Munim Muẖtār Amīn (1929-2006) in 1957. Modern quarter leather binding with marbled paper covers; in good condition. Paper: laid paper with watermarks; script: nasẖī; ink: black; horizontal catchwords in black ink; headings in red ink; frames on fols. 1v-2r in red ink; rule-borders in red ink; catch-title in black ink. Flyleaf. The manuscript is incomplete.

Entry author

Marina Santana