

Country |
Yemen
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City |
Ṣanʻāʼ
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Repository | Maktabat Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Manṣūr |
Current Status | In situ |
Type of Record | Manuscript |
Extent | 103 leaf(ves) |
Century(ies) | 20th century |
Language(s) | Arabic |
Genre(s) | Poems; Grammars; Taṣawwuf; Catechisms |
Feature(s) | Border(s), Decorative; Diagram(s); Drawing(s); Headpiece(s) |
Notes |
Folio numbers are approximate |
HMML Proj. Num. |
ZMT 01380 |
Permanent Link | https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/144287 |
Processed By | HMML |
Acknowledgments | The ʻZaydi Manuscript Traditionʼ Project, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Cataloged by Joshua Mugler |
Surrogate Format | Digital |
Access Restrictions | Registered |
Rights | http://www.vhmml.org/terms |

Type of Record | Manuscript |
Extent | 103 leaf(ves) |
Foliation | Contemporary pagination in Eastern Arabic numerals, 1-23, 1-49, 21-29 |
Provenance |
Ownership note of احمد عثمان, fol. 91r; ownership notes of حسين بن احمد بن سماعيل بن الامام احمد ابن يحيى الحسن القاسم ابن على المتوكل على الله الماعيل بن القاسم ابن محمد, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1420 AH (2000 CE), fol. 18r, 26r, 91r |
Condition Notes |
Imperfect: wanting leaves |
Type | Manuscript |
Place of Origin | Yemen |
Century(ies) | 20th century |
Year Range | 1930 |
Date Precise | 1930 |
Native Date Precise | Shaʻbān 1348 AH |
Support | Paper |
Page Layout | 1-2 column(s), 13-25 lines per page |
Catchwords | Yes |
Writing System | Arabic |
Script(s) | Naskh |
Notes |
Copied by السيد احمد بن قاسم بن محمد. Colophon, fol. 72r |

Title | Miscellany |
Associated Name |
Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360
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Associated Name |
ʻAskarī, Abū Hilāl al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -approximately 1005
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Associated Name |
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
(Attributed name)
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Language(s) | Arabic |
Incipit | شفق البراق ام حلل الاعن |
Contents Detail |
Sufi catechism entitled Ḍābiṭ Kanz al-rashād, fol. 18v-26r; grammatical catechism entitled Ḍābiṭ Qaṭr Ibn Hishām, a revision of Ibn Hishām's grammar Qaṭr al-nadá wa-ball al-ṣadá, fol. 26v-57r; abridgement entitled al-Lumʻah min al-Furūq of al-ʻAskarī's treatise al-Furūq al-lughawīyah, fol. 63r-72r; testament of the Prophet to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Waṣīyat al-Nabī), fol. 72v-89v |
Item Notes |
Poems by Aḥmad ibn Muḥsin ibn al-Imām and others, fol. 1r-5v, 96r-103v; excerpts on grammar, fol. 6r-16v, 58r-62r; treatise on Qurʼan recitation (tajwīd) with a diagram showing the emission points of the letters, fol. 91v-95r |

Country |
Yemen
![]() |
City |
Ṣanʻāʼ
![]() |
Repository | Maktabat Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Manṣūr |
Current Status | In situ |
Type of Record | Manuscript |
Extent | 103 leaf(ves) |
Century(ies) | 20th century |
Language(s) | Arabic |
Genre(s) | Poems; Grammars; Taṣawwuf; Catechisms |
Feature(s) | Border(s), Decorative; Diagram(s); Drawing(s); Headpiece(s) |
Notes |
Folio numbers are approximate |
HMML Proj. Num. |
ZMT 01380 |
Permanent Link | https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/144287 |
Processed By | HMML |
Acknowledgments | The ʻZaydi Manuscript Traditionʼ Project, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Cataloged by Joshua Mugler |
Surrogate Format | Digital |
Access Restrictions | Registered |
Rights | http://www.vhmml.org/terms |
Type of Record | Manuscript |
Extent | 103 leaf(ves) |
Foliation | Contemporary pagination in Eastern Arabic numerals, 1-23, 1-49, 21-29 |
Provenance |
Ownership note of احمد عثمان, fol. 91r; ownership notes of حسين بن احمد بن سماعيل بن الامام احمد ابن يحيى الحسن القاسم ابن على المتوكل على الله الماعيل بن القاسم ابن محمد, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1420 AH (2000 CE), fol. 18r, 26r, 91r |
Condition Notes |
Imperfect: wanting leaves |
Type | Manuscript |
Place of Origin | Yemen |
Century(ies) | 20th century |
Year Range | 1930 |
Date Precise | 1930 |
Native Date Precise | Shaʻbān 1348 AH |
Support | Paper |
Page Layout | 1-2 column(s), 13-25 lines per page |
Catchwords | Yes |
Writing System | Arabic |
Script(s) | Naskh |
Notes |
Copied by السيد احمد بن قاسم بن محمد. Colophon, fol. 72r |
Title | Miscellany |
Associated Name |
Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360
![]() |
Associated Name |
ʻAskarī, Abū Hilāl al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -approximately 1005
![]() |
Associated Name |
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
(Attributed name)
![]() |
Language(s) | Arabic |
Incipit | شفق البراق ام حلل الاعن |
Contents Detail |
Sufi catechism entitled Ḍābiṭ Kanz al-rashād, fol. 18v-26r; grammatical catechism entitled Ḍābiṭ Qaṭr Ibn Hishām, a revision of Ibn Hishām's grammar Qaṭr al-nadá wa-ball al-ṣadá, fol. 26v-57r; abridgement entitled al-Lumʻah min al-Furūq of al-ʻAskarī's treatise al-Furūq al-lughawīyah, fol. 63r-72r; testament of the Prophet to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Waṣīyat al-Nabī), fol. 72v-89v |
Item Notes |
Poems by Aḥmad ibn Muḥsin ibn al-Imām and others, fol. 1r-5v, 96r-103v; excerpts on grammar, fol. 6r-16v, 58r-62r; treatise on Qurʼan recitation (tajwīd) with a diagram showing the emission points of the letters, fol. 91v-95r |
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