Manuscript Description

Manuscript Title:

Thesis regarding how to guard against plague and pandemic

Manuscript Subject:

Other Title (subtitle):

-

The Author's full name:

date of his death:

(died 1098 AH).

Beginning of the manuscript:

Praise be to God, who removes affliction from His servants by submissiveness, humbling and cringing to Him, and then, this is a summary of what the sultans of the scholars and the wise men mentioned regarding how to guard against plague and pandemic, and what is used in their times...

End of the manuscript:

... And we will conclude this brief with a wonderful story. Sabat Ibn Al-Jawzi narrated... about the plague... He said: only a slave girl was left of them, her family died, and when the chandelier appeared, the poisons blew up, the flies raged, the plague rose, and the maid heard the wolf howling, and she said, addressing him poetry: O wolf that cries out of restless *** Shall I tell you what happened to me

Transcribers Name:

Date of transcription/Copy:

On Wednesday in the month of Rabi' al-Akhir in the year

Century:AH:

Place of transcription (if any):

Font type:

Naskh (script)

Number of papers: Number of lines: Size: X cm

Number of papers: 7 (1b - 7a). Number of lines: 21. Size: 19.5 x 14.5 cm.

Language

The place where the manuscript is preserved:

Archiving No:

817 (1)

General Notes:

It was written in black ink and some phrases in red, it has a commentary, in the margins there are comments and corrections, the title came on the cover (Al-Durr Al-Maknoun fi Al-kalam 'n Al-Ta'on) and the author was not named, in its beginning the transcriberis owned and wrote the date of transcription on the cover page with poetic entries, Hassan Al-Husseini owned the estate of Ali Al-Qutb.