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About 50 of these manuscripts were scribed by Deacon Mattai bar Paulos bar Na'matallâh of Mosul. [3] 270 Arabic Christian manuscripts including a fragment of the oldest known text of the Acta Thomae, and a very early copy of the Arabic translation of some works by St. Ephrem. 2000 Arabic Islamic manuscripts mainly on religious subjects.
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The main character Abu Zayd travelling on horse, on his way to Diyar Bakr (Maqama 43, BNF Arabe 3929, 1200-1210). [2]The Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī (Arabic: مقامات الحريري) [3] is a collection of fifty tales or maqāmāt written at the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century by al-Ḥarīrī of Basra (1054–1122), a poet and government official of the Seljuk Empire. [4]
The Basmala as written on the Birmingham muṣḥaf manuscript, the oldest surviving copy of the Qur'an. Rasm: "ٮسم الله الرحمں الرحىم". The Mingana Collection, comprising over 3,000 documents, was collected by Alphonse Mingana over three trips to the Middle East in the 1920s [3] and was funded by Edward Cadbury, a philanthropist and businessman of the Birmingham-based ...
The 1210 copy does not mention Baghdad, but is considered a copy of the 1209 manuscript, made by the same calligrapher. [9] The Kitāb al-bayṭara has been used as an artistic reference to try to attribute a famous 1237 CE Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Arabe 5847) to Baghdad as well. The attempt ...
Blue Qu'ran, 9–10th century manuscript. A common religious manuscript would be a copy of the Qur'an, which is the sacred book of Islam.The Qur'an is believed by Muslims to be a divine revelation (the word of god) to Muhammad, revealed to him by Archangel Gabriel. [5]
The 7th Maqāma of Al-Hariri, illustration by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti from the 1237 manuscript (BNF ms. arabe 5847).. The maqāma (Arabic: مقامة , literally "assembly"; plural maqāmāt, مقامات [maqaːˈmaːt]) is an (originally) Arabic prosimetric literary genre of picaresque short stories originating in the tenth century C.E. [1] [2] The maqāmāt are anecdotes told by a ...
Kitāb al-Diryāq (Arabic: كتاب الدرياق, "The Book of Theriac"), also Book of Anditodes of Pseudo-Galen or in French Traité de la thériaque, is a medieval Arabic book supposedly based on the writings of Galen ("pseudo-Galen").