Copied A.H. 1172 [A.D. 1759] by Muḥammad Muḥammad and ʻAlī al-Faqīh Zayd ibn ʻAlī al-Suḥāmī al-Khawlānī. Fols. 116; 21.2 x 158 cm.; written surface 14-14.7 x 10-11 cm.; 24-26 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red; with rubrications; with poor illuminations. A work on the rebellions and conquests in al-Yaman from A.H. 901-1028 [A.D. 1495/6-1618/9]. Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمد لله ذي الملك والملکوت Colophon: تم الکتاب بحمد الله الکرىم الوهاب اخر نهار الاربعاء بعد العصر لساعة زمنىة لعله تاسع عشر ىوم في شهر رمضان الکرىم سنة اثنىن وسبعىن ومائة والف سنة 1172 بخط اسىر ذنبه ورهىن کتبه محمد محمد وعلي الفقىه زىد بن علي السحامي الخولاني غفرالله له ذنوبه ولوالدىه ولجمىع اخوانه المؤمنىن وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد الامىن واله الا کرمىن الطىبىن Marginal summaries; ruled marginal lines in red on the first seventy-eight folios. On the folio following the last page is a quotation from the Murūj al-dhahab of al-Masʻūdī, A.H. 345 [A.D. 956]. On the twenty following folios are: (1) The famous poem in praise of the Prophet by al-Būṣīrī A.H. 608-694 [A.D. 1212-1294/5] entitled al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah and generally... Acquired by Ananikian, from Egypt, A.D. 1924. Khulāṣat al-Athar III, p. 236; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, pp. 60/1; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9743; Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 590.
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