ابن المقري، إسماعيل بن أبي بكر، 1354-1433 أو 1434.

ʻUnwān al-sharaf al-wāfī / Ismāʻīl ibn Abī Bakr ibn al-Muqrī. -- 1881.

عنوان الشرف الوافي / إسماعيل بن أبي بكر بن المقري. -- 1881.

Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh walī al-ḥamd wa-mustaḥiqqihi alldhī lā yaqūmu bi-ḥamdihi aḥadun min khalqihi ..."

البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله ولي الحمد ومستحقه الذي لا يقوم بحمده أحدٌ من خلقه ..."

Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; full-page ʻunwāns in colors on leaves 1 verso and 2 recto.

Islamic binding, in brown, with flap.

The scribe's and owner's names are defaced.

Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh min raqmihi ẓuhr yawm al-Sabt ākhir yawm min shahr al-Muḥarram ... sanat thamāniyah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn baʻda al-alf ... wa-dhālika bi-khaṭṭ ... ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Jābir ibn Aḥmad ibn Jābir [?] ibn Jābir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān min nasl ʻUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit al-Khazrajī ..."

الخاتمة: "وكان الفراغ من رقمه ظهر يوم السبت آخر يوم من شهر المحرم ... سنة ثمانية وتسعين ومائتين بعد الألف ... وذلك بخط ... علي بن عبد الله بن أحمد بن علي بن أحمد بن جابر بن أحمد بن جابر [؟] بن جابر بن عبد الرحمن من نسل عبادة بن الصامت الخزرجي ..."

Translation of the colophon: "The copy was completed at noon, on Saturday, the end of the month of al-Muḥarram ... of the year 1298 [of the Hijrah = 2 January 1881] ... in the handwriting of ... ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Jābir ibn Aḥmad ibn Jābir [?] ibn Jābir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, of the progeny of ʻUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit al-Khazrajī ..."

Encyclopedic manual (law, prosody, history, grammar).

Copied in A.H. 1298 (A.D. 1881).

Brockelmann, II, 190-191; S II, p. 254

Ismāʻīl ibn Abī Bakr ibn al-Muqrī, ʻUnwān al-sharaf al-wāfī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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