[Rasāʾil] / Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn ʻAbd Allāh. -- [after 1885].

Creator:

Mahdī, Muḥammad Aḥmad, 1848-1885

Published/Created:

[after 1885]

Physical Description:

202 leaves ; 23 x 16.5 cm.

Notes:

"Registre des lettres et proclamations du Mahdi qui se trouvent dans [ce] manuscrit"; 4 leaves, in C. Landberg's hand, in pocket, inside front cover.
Leaves numbered as pp. 1-503 (not counting the first page; pp. 495-503 are blank except for page-numbers).
Imperfect: pp. 252-351 wanting.
Fair Sudanese hand, in red and black.
Islamic binding, in red, with flap.
Cf. JAOS, 31(1911), 368-69, from where it would seem that C. Landberg's original manuscript 543 (a volume of "170 Seiten") is now in the Egyptian Intelligence Office in Cairo and that it was captured at the battle of Toski in 1889.

Abstract:

Letters and proclamations.
Copied after the Mahdī's death, since his name is occasionally followed by the formula ʻalayhi al-salām.

Topics:

History--Sudan
Islamic binding

Topics:

Landberg, Carlo,--1848-1924--Ms. notes

Language:

Arabic

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Format:

Text

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Landberg MSS 543

Orbis Record:

3829720

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

15821825

Extent of digitization:

Partial work digitized.

OID:

15821802

PID:

digcoll:4033067