Juzʼ fī faḍl al-dīk : manuscriptجزء في فضل الديك : مخطوطةAbū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038أبو نعيم الإصبهاني، أحمد بن عبد الله، 948-10381765.ara"Juzʼ fī faḍl al-dīk", a treatise on the traits and virtues of the domestic rooster, by Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038), a prolific author, a Ḥadīth scholar, a historian, a biographer, and frequent traveler, teacher of the well-known historian al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1002-1071, author of "Tarīkh Baghdād", the encyclopedic work on the history of Baghdad). Copied on 25 Jumād al-Ākhir of the year 1179 of the Hijrah (9 December 1765), by Ḥasan ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Jīrī. Place of copying not mentionedIn Arabic.Title from incipit (folio 1b).Romanization supplied by cataloger.Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi astaʻīn. Rabbi zidnī ʻilman. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah. al-Ḥamdu lillāh wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam. Wa-baʻd, fa-qad allafa al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī juzʼan fī faḍl al-dīk. al-Muqaddimah: al-Dīk bi-al-kasr, wa-jamʻuhu duyūk, wa-adyāk, wa-diyakah, li-fardihi, wa-qad yuṭlaqu ʻalá al-dajājah, wa-zaqā al-dīk zaqqan, wa-kunyatuhu Abū Ḥassān ..."Secundo folio: wa-rawá al-Shaykhān wa-Abū Dāwūd.16.5 x 23 cm; written surface: 10 x 16 cm; 23 lines per page.Binding: Unbound (in one quire).In good large, stylistic naskh script, in black ink, on laid white paper; catchwords.Folios 1a and 10 are blank; text folios 1b-9b.Colophon: "Tammat fī 25 shahr Jumād Ākhir, sanat 1179, ʻalá yad afqar al-makhlūqīn Ḥasan ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Jīrī, ʻafá Allāh ʻanhu."Translation of the colophon: "It was completed on the 25th of the month of Jumād Ākhir, of the year 1179 [of the Hijrah = 9 December 1765], by the hand of the poorest of the creatures, Ḥasan ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Jīrī, may God forgive him."