Title
al-Sayf al-Muhannad fī Sīrat al-Malik al-Muʾayyad
السيف المهند في سبرة الملك المؤيد
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-ʿAynī, Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad
Physical description
Folios 60; Number of lines per page 24-25; Leaf height 262 mm; Leaf width 175 mm
صفحات 60; عدد السطور في الصفحة 24-25; طول الصفحة 262 ملم; عرض الصفحة 175 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
24-25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 262 mm; Leaf width 175 mm
- Text Area
190x130 mm
- Number of folios
60
- Binding
Old cardboard cover which was probably covered by brown leather!
Manuscript description
Several visualizations and tables are included in the book. Not extensive use of the margins which contain: few correction notes, several announcements of the topics and names discussed in the main text. Sometimes, the main text is completed in the margins. Muḥammad b. Qanṣūh b. Sādiq wrote several poetry verses which he composed in praising a certain beautiful boy (i.e. malīḥ) named Ilyās (f.59b, f.1a). Reading note of Aḥmad b. Tanam al-Jamālī f.1a. The first flyleaf has the date: 23 Jan. 1873 written on it in French.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Sa ʿīd b. ʿĪsā b. Amīr Khān (f.1a); Maḥmūd b. Rustum al-Sharū? (f.1a); Ibn al-Walī Aḥmad (Zarūq?) (f.1a); Muḥammad b. Qanṣūh b. Sādiq (f.1a); Muḥammad b. Nāṣir al-Dīn (al-Ṣaʿīd?) (who is in the service of al-Maqarr al-Asharf Nāẓir al-Juyūsh al-Manṣūra be-l-Diyār al-miṣriyya in the 2nd of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of (????) (f.59b). BNF stamps on f.1a and f.322b.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (title and keywords are rubricated in red or green. In few instances, red dots or inverted commas are written).
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Thick, rough, some papers are darker than the others
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0855BadrDinCayni.SayfMuhannad
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 1723
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 1723
- Alternate Classmark
Ancien fonds arabe 685
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Copied in the 15th century CE
Language
Arabic
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