Wa-hādhihi abwāb tushtamilu ʻalá ṣanʻat al-nafṭ wa-ʻamalih
Language: ara
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Gums and resins; Arabic Manuscripts; Petroleum; Oils and fats; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Ṣanʻat al-nafṭ wa-ʻamalih; Qiṭʻah min kitāb fī ṣanʻat al-nafṭ wa-al-adʹhān wa-al-aṣmāgh
Description: Manuscript is a large portion of a work on the manufacture of petroleum, oils, and gums.  On the title page, a piece of paper has been glued over the top three-quarters of the page so that only the rubricated title and 3 lines of writing at the bottom are visible.  There follow two pages of tables on different kinds of petroleums, oils, and gums. On the next leaf begins the text proper, which starts with chapter six (al-bāb al-sādis) on the manufacture of gums.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  thick yellowed cream, no visible watermarks, seriously affected by termite damage and many leaves repaired.  Some diacritical marks.  Red and black ink on title page; text in black and red.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-98.

Nastaʻliq script with some words in Thuluth; 21 lines in written area, 24 x 17 cm.

Tables on folia1b and 2a.

Fol. 1a-26b.

Binding:  new; cloth over cardboard, leather spine.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 64; under title: Qiṭʻah min kitāb fī ṣanʻat al-nafṭ wa-al-adʹhān wa-al-aṣmāgh.

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

Arabic.