Descriptive Information

Title

[Dhayl Tārīkh Baghdād].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3518Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xd07gw292

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1200-1299

Format

Manuscript

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

ff. 29 (incomplete: several lacunae). 262 x 182; 187 x 122 mm. 27 lin. 13th cen.

Fragment; perhaps the work of Ibn al-Najjār, d. 643/1245, cf. Brockelmann, GAL, I, 443; S I, 563.

First complete entry (fol. 1a): Naṣr ibn Yaḥyá al-Kirmānī (fl. 588/1192). On fol. 11b begins bāb al-wāw with the biography of Wāthiq ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Anbārī. Bāb al-hāʼ commences on fol. 15b with Hādī ibn Ismāʻīl al-ḥasan.

Last entry (fol. 29b): Hibat Allāh ibn al-ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf Abū al-Qāsim al-Asṭurlābī.

Incip. (as extant): ... فقال کان شىخا حسنا ملىح المحاضرة حفظه للحکاىات

Discovery Information

Subject

Baghdad (Iraq)—Biography—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

34

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/12b92a74-a1e6-411d-a109-30177afd762d/manifest

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