Hādhihi Muqaddimah fī al-takbīr

Manuscript. Title from fol. 1a. Scribe not identified. Section of a collection of treatises; only the Muqaddimah of Shaykh Sulṭan is present in this volume. Place of writing not determined. Paper; stiff, yellowed medium cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink; fol. 11 was completed in a different hand, about the same time as the rest of the manuscript; catchwords. Treatise on the seven or ten readings of the Qurʼān by the otherwise unidentified Shaykh Sulṭān. Naskh; 21 lines in written area 15.5 x 10.5 cm. Fol. 1b-11b. "4. I 274 = 1.247." Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-247. Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover. Arabic. Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945. Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله الذي اخرجنا من العدم الى الوجود وارشدنا للحق عن كل دين مردود ... وبعدفهذه نبذة يسيرة وفواعد عزيزة تشتمل على معرفة ما يتعلق بجميعاوجو التكبير للقرا السبعة من طريق الشاطبية ومن طريق الدرة ه__ العشرة ... Explicit/Colophon: ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محم\ وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين. تمت بحمد الله وعونه.