al-Nujūm al-shāriqāt fī dhikr baʻḍ al-ṣanāīʻ al-muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻilm al-mīqāt
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Handbooks, vade-mecums; Early works to 1800; Arab Painting; Materials and instruments; Writing
Description: Text is divided into 25 chapters.
Notes: Ms.

Title from introduction, p. 2.

Paper:  pp. 1-64 and 77-80 are yellowed cream, with watermarks; pp. 65-76 are from off-white paper, with watermarks (initials AG), but written in the same hand as pp. 1-65 and 77-80.  Pp. 81-84 written in different hand on different paper (no chain lines or watermarks, very thin, darker).  Medium condition; black stains on title page and brown stains on pp. 33-36.  Text is mainly in black, with some rubricated words and chapter headings.  Many marginal notes on some pages. Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-757.

Nastaʻliq script; 17 lines in written area, 16 x 10 cm.

Fol. 1a-42b (numbered 1-84).

Binding:  cardboard, with leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
Table of contents: title: Page before title page contains a note on making leather in Maghibī script.  Chapter on painting (pp. 82-84; in same hand as principal text) follows text on writing materials.