ZNA-EAC-010

Umar al-Taftazani Collection of original material : ZIAR Owner/Custodian : ZIAR Description of Content : Taṣrīf Text Arrangement : exceprts Physical Description of item : manuscript in black ink, orange ink for titles and headings (probably originaly red) partialy vocalized Physical characteristics height (cm) : 21.6 Physical characteristics width (cm) : 16.3 Physical characteristics (folios) : 182 State of completion : complete Primary Language of object : Arabic Script of object : Arabic Keywords : linguistics Location of original material : ZANZIBAR Collection description The ZNA-EAC are the only entries in the Mprint corpus that do not have accompanying images.

The ZNA-EAC series catalogs manuscripts belonging to the Zanzibar Institute for Records and Archives – ZIAR – (formerly the Zanzibar National Archives or ZNA.) The manuscripts housed in ZIAR were not available for digitization. The records included in the Mprint corpus are drawn from the work of Dr. Lorenzo Declich and published in The Arabic Manuscripts of the Zanzibar National Archives: A Checklist that appeared as Supplemento no. 2 Alla Revista Studi Orientale Nouvo Serie volume LXVIII (Pisa/Roma: Academia Editoriale, 2006).