Arabic manuscript collections in the Democratic Republic of Yemen

Evidence

"Manuscripts: (1) Mukallā, No. 316, 565 pages, copied for the author’s contemporary, Emir al-Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad. A lacune in the opening part of the manuscript is filled with a new handwriting. The manuscript is damaged in several places."

Remarks

This 17th-century manuscript (No. 316) is a voluminous chronicle of 565 pages (p. 94). The physical description highlights that it is 'damaged in several places' and contains a lacune at the beginning (p. 94). Of material interest is the fact that the lacune was filled in with 'new handwriting', indicating a later conservation attempt or textual completion using different ink and potentially different paper stock than the original 17th-century manuscript (p. 94).