Nubdhah laṭīfah fī ʻilm al-kitābah wa-al-aḥbār
Contributors: Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, d. 1225; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1852
Language: ara
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Arabic Writing; Arabic Calligraphy; Materials and instruments; Writing
Other titles: Risālah fī al-aḥbār
Description: Treatise on the types, manufacture, and use of pens, inks, and paper.
Notes: Ms.

Title from incipit.

Transcribed by the author on 1 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1268 H.

[Egypt?]

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks, in good condition, though brown stains on last two leaves.  Black ink with some rubricated words; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-609.

Naskhī script; 19 lines in written area, 17 x 11 cm.

Text on fol. 1b -18a, followed by a note on fol. 18a-20b on the virtues of "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm" by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī.

Binding: Modern cardboard with leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.