Kitāb nukhab al-dhakhāyir fī aḥwāl al-jawāhir
By: tālīf al-imām al-mutqan Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sāʻid al-Anṣārī ...
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Precious stones; Mineralogy
Work titles: Nukhab al-dhakhāʻir fī aḥwāl al-jawāhir
Description: Title page has 5 verses on jewels.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks, in bad condition, with termite damage all over the manuscript. Last leaf repaired.  Black ink throughout; some diacritical marks; catchwords on rectos. Violet pencil (in modern hand) on title page.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-578.

Nastaʻliq script; 21 lines in written area, 15 x 9 cm.

Fol. 1a-6a.

Binding:  cardboard; leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.