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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-siyāsah fī ʻilm al-farāsah كتاب السياسة في علم الفراسة /

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Title

  • Kitāb al-siyāsah fī ʻilm al-farāsah

Other Title

  • كتاب السياسة في علم الفراسة /

Summary

  • Medieval Arabic work on physiognomy.

Names

  • Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib, 1256 or 1257-1327
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 11 Jumādá al-ūlá 1337 [12 February 1919]

Headings

  • -  Physiognomy--Early works to 1800
  • -  Personality--Early works to 1800
  • -  Astrology--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Maḥmūd ʻAlī Sulaymān al-Nassākh.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Egypt.
  • -  Paper; commercial cream color paper with no watermarks; black ink with rubrication; few line diagrams interspersed in text; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 161.2
  • -  Large clear naskh; 19 lines in written area 17 x 9 cm.
  • -  Fol. 45ab and 46a have several geometric figures in red interspersed in the text; 46a has an illustration of the back of a hand, 46b has an illustration of the palm.
  • -  Note following colophon says that this copy was from an old manuscript "min kutub al-Sulṭānīyah al-Miṣrīyah."
  • -  Fol. 1b-51b.
  • -  "81. IX [667] = 5.616."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection,
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لمن يتحق اشياء للاهوتية، ويستوحب الشكر لالوهية، والصلاة والسلم على سيدنا محمد المخصوص برسالته ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وهذا منتهى ما وصل الينا من الثلاثة وعشرين علامة المنسوبة للفيلسوف بقراط في البئور بتمامها تم بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقة آمين.

Medium

  • 51 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 24.5 x 17.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BF858.A7 D56 1919

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496232

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Dimashqī, Shams Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Abī Ṭālib, 1256 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Al-Siyāsah Fī ʻilm Al-Farāsah. [11 Jumādá al-ūlá 12 February 1919, 1337] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016496232/.

APA citation style:

Dimashqī, S. A. M. I. A. Ṭ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1337) Kitāb Al-Siyāsah Fī ʻilm Al-Farāsah. [11 Jumādá al-ūlá 12 February 1919] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016496232/.

MLA citation style:

Dimashqī, Shams Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Abī Ṭālib, 1256 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Al-Siyāsah Fī ʻilm Al-Farāsah. [11 Jumādá al-ūlá 12 February 1919, 1337] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016496232/>.