Details
Object numberMS 1500 [Handlist 82]
TitleKanz al-walad
CreatorIbrāhīm b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥāmidī (Author)
DescriptionThis manuscript contains only the first 7 of the 14 chapters of the Kanz al-walad. It has been badly restored (all the pages were covered with opaque gauze) and is consequently not easy to read.
DESCRIPTION: dark brown cloth binding; 141 folios; catchwords; 21 x 12 em (15 x 7.5 em); 13 lines; black ink with a few rubrics in red; naskh; tables on fols 77a-b, 112b, 113b, 117b; title and author indicated on fol. 1a and on the paper wrapper; a note on the flyleaf signed by Fayḍ Allāh b. Muḥammad ‘Alī al-Hamdānī records its rebinding and its acquisition by al-Khizāna al-Muḥammadiyya in Suratin 1368, equated
with 1949.
DESCRIPTION: dark brown cloth binding; 141 folios; catchwords; 21 x 12 em (15 x 7.5 em); 13 lines; black ink with a few rubrics in red; naskh; tables on fols 77a-b, 112b, 113b, 117b; title and author indicated on fol. 1a and on the paper wrapper; a note on the flyleaf signed by Fayḍ Allāh b. Muḥammad ‘Alī al-Hamdānī records its rebinding and its acquisition by al-Khizāna al-Muḥammadiyya in Suratin 1368, equated
with 1949.
DocumentationBlois, François de. Arabic, Persian and Gujarati Manuscripts: The Hamdani Collection. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011.
Object typemanuscript