Dhikr maʻrifat aḥzāb al-Qurʼān wa-anṣāfihi wa-arbāʻih : manuscript, undated

Title from caption (fol. 1v).

الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى ذكر الحروف التي كتب بعضها على خلاف البعض في المصحف الامام المنسوب الى امير المؤمنين ... :Incipit

تمت احزاب القرآن بعون الله ... :Colophon

Written in a nastaʻlīq script in black ink, rubricated in red, 13 lines per page, with marginal corrections. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf.

With: Adab al-kātib / li-al-Shaykh ʻAlam al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī (ff. 1r-29r) ; ʻAdad mā fī al-kitāb al-ʻazīz min al-āyāt ʻalá ḥurūf al-muʻjam (ff. 29v-31v) ; Makhārij al-ḥurūf / li-Abī Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jaʻbarī (ff. 37r-40r).

A line from a Turkish poem on fol. 1v.

Inside front cover is written the content of the majmūʻah and a note in pencil in a later hand: "al-thalāthah rasāʼil al-akhīrah khaṭṭuhā qadīm jiddan."

Bound in pasteboards covered in marble paper with dark brown leather on spine.

In Arabic.

MS Arab 379. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

In Arabic.