Sharḥ ʻalá Tashrīḥ al-aflāk lil-ʻĀmilī
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800
Description: Text consists of extracts from and commentary on Tashrīḥ al-aflāk by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.  Fol. 65b contains a list of book titles and a short story (scratched out) dated 1232 H [1816 or 17] and written in a second hand.
Notes: Ms.

Binder's title.

Title on frontispiece lined out: Sharḥ Qānūn al-adrāk.

Paper:  yellowed cream, no visible watermarks, in medium condition; termite damage.  Black ink with some rubricated words; some underlining in black ink. Words missing in the text have been written in the outer margin. Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-753.

Nastaʻliq script; 17 lines in written area, 13 x 7 cm.

Illustrations:  outer margin of leaf 14a.

Fol. 1a-65b.

Undated ownership signature of Muḥammad Khalīl on title page.  Another (partly illegible) stamp on fol. 65b.

Binding:  modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.