Title
al-Khabar ʿan al-Bashar
الخبر عن البشر
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Folios 791, 700, ?, ?, 619, 513, 548 : Number of lines per page 21 ; Leaf height 260 mm; Leaf width 190 mm
سبع أجزاء; صفحات 791، 700،؟،؟، 619، 513، 548; عدد السطور في الصفحة 21; طول الصفحة 260 ملم; عرض الصفحة 190 ملم
- Volume
7 volumes
- Lines
21
- Dimensions
Leaf height 260 mm; Leaf width 190 mm
- Text Area
185x100 mm
- Number of folios
791, 700, ?, ?, 619, 513, 548
- Binding
Manuscript description
Seven volumes executed in modern hand between July 1934 (volume 1) and May 1935 (volume 7). Margins contain: some correction notes, topic announcements, and commentary mostly concerning linguistic peculiarities, especially in poetry. A note on p. 5 in volume 2 notes a blank page in the source manuscript (which is never explicitly mentioned but which may be Dār al-Kutub Tārīkh 947). Volume 1 contains a table of contents on pp. 784-791. There are stamps of the Dār al-Kutub on each volume.
- Ownership Statement
- Colophon
Maḥmūd Ḥamdī (employed by the Dār al-kutub).
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication, poetry marked with red dots.
- Writing material
- Material
Modern Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.KhabarCanBashar
Collection and Call number
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt) - Tārīkh 5251 - (دار الكتب و الوثائق القومية المصرية - تاريخ 5251)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Tārīkh 5251
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Genealogy
Historiography
Universal History
Historiography
Universal History
Date
1934-1935 CE
1934-1935 ميلادية
Language
Arabic
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