Kitāb al-malāḥah fī ʻilm al-filāḥah
By: talif sayyidina al-khayr al-matīn wa-khātimat al-ʻulamāʼ al-rāsikhīn al-ʻārif bi-Ilāh [illegible] al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī ...
Contributors: Muftīʹzādah al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Najīb, former owner; Ellis, Alexander George, 1858-1942, former owner; Nābulusī, ʻAbd Allah ibn ʻUmar ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Ismaʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī, scribe; Raḍī al-Ghazzī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1457 or 8-1528 or 9.
Published: 1854
Language: ara
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Pre-Linnean works; Botany; Early works to 1800; Agriculture; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: ʻAlam al-malāḥah fī ʻilm al-filāḥah
Work titles: Malāḥah fī ʻilm al-filāḥah
Description: According to Ismāʻīl Bāshā Bābānī's Kitāb īḍāḥ al-maknūn fī al-dhayl ʻalá Kashf al-ẓunūn, this text is a summary of Jāmiʻ fawāʼid al-malāḥah, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Raḍī al-Ghazzī; it consists of 10 chapters and an epilogue.
Notes: Ms.

Transcribed by ʻAbd Allah ibn ʻUmar ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Ismaʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, a descendant of the author, on 5 Rajab 1270 H.

Paper:  cream, with watermarks, of varying thickness, in good condition.  Red ink on title page, black and red ink in text.  Marginal notes, catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-36.

Leaf facing t.p. has bookseller's label: "Hasan (al-Qabul, known as Abdul Ghani) a treatise in Arabic on agriculture composed from the works of various ancient authors, written in good Naskh on 109 ll., rubricated. According to the colophon, this is a copy from the original Ms. and was transcribed by Abdullah ... son of the author in the month of Rajab, the year 1270 A.H. = A.D. 1853. In leather binding with flap. A most interesting work of its kind.  £3:0:0"

Naskhī script: 21 lines in written area, 17 x 9 cm.

Fol. 1a-109b.

Previously owned by Muftī Zādah al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Najīb, a judge in Damascus, and Alexander George Ellis.

Binding:  Leather.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 29.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

Arabic.