Title
ʿAjāʾib al-Maqdūr fī Nawāʾib Tīmūr
عجائب المقدور في نوائب تيمور
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn ʿArabshāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
Physical description
Folios 235; Number of lines per page 17; Leaf height 215 mm; Leaf width 145 mm
صفحات 235; عدد السطور في الصفحة 17; طول الصفحة 215 ملم; عرض الصفحة 145 ملم
- Volume
-
- Lines
17
- Dimensions
Leaf height 215 mm; Leaf width 145 mm
- Text Area
185x120 mm
- Number of folios
235
- Binding
Material : Dark brown half leather binding; parts of the covers and their doublures made of paper
Manuscript description
A Digital copy of the manuscript was consulted. Partially vocalized. Clean margins. The folio f.1v contains a long note about how to tell if a disappeared person is still alive or dead through the science of the letters. There is a note on f.4a which reads: ''This is the book of (…) Buṭrus the translator of the (the English people?) in Alexandria and he has lent it to the foreigner (Khawājah?) William? Parker? So that he (i.e. William) can read it and return it [to Buṭrus]''. There is a farmān at the end of the manuscript issued by Amīr al-Umarāʾ in Egypt the prince ʿAlī Beg directed to the scholars of al-Shām criticizing the attacks which conducted by a certain ʿthmān Pasha on the Pilgrims to Mecca.
- Ownership Statement
- Colophon
Colophon dated 2 Kānūn I (December) 1786 CE in the monastery of Mar Mikhael in Zouk. Copyist said that he will not write his name in the Alphabetic letters and wrote in numbers instead. (967 81)
2 كانون أول سنة 1786 مسيحية بدير مار ميخايل الزوق
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (fading in many places). Red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around titles
- Writing material
- Material
European watermarked papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
Leipzig University (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig) - Vollers 673
- Location
Leipzig University (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig)
- Current classmark
Vollers 673
- Alternate Classmark
SS 282
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
2 Kānūn I (December) 1786 CE- 1201 AH
نسخت في 1201 هجرية- 2 كانون الأول سنة 1786 مسيحية
Language
Arabic