al-Sahm al-muṣīb fī kabid al-Khaṭīb
Contributors: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, active 1226, scribe; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1226
Language: ara
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Tārīkh Baghdād (Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī)
Other titles: Sahm al-muṣīb fī al-radd ʻalá al-Khaṭīb
Work titles: Radd ʻalá Abī Bakr al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī
Description: Copy of a polemic by ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad (al-Muʻaẓẓam), Sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty in Damascus against Tārīkh Baghdād by al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: 15 lines per page.

Script: Written in clear naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red.

Origin: Item is dated 623 AH and the scribe gives his name as ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (f. 138r).

Shelfmark: X893.7 Is1.

Reader's note dated 1239 AH [1823 CE] written in after the end of the text (f. 138r).

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Martinovitch, Nicholas N. "Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Columbia University Library." Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 49, (1929), pp. 219-233; page 225.

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Arabic.

Blue paper sides mottled with black over green leather with flap; paper labels on front cover and spine.

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