Title
Fākihat al-Khulafāʾ wa-Mufākahat al-Ẓurafāʾ
فاكهة الخلفاء و مفاكهة الظرفاء
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn ʿArabshāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
Physical description
Folios 208; Number of lines per page 23; Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 150 mm
صفحات 208; عدد السطور في الصفحة 23; طول الصفحة 210 ملم; عرض الصفحة 150 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
23
- Dimensions
Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 150 mm
- Text Area
135x95 mm.
- Number of folios
208
- Binding
European brown leather
Manuscript description
Not extensive use of the margins: few commentary notes and corrections. The topics and names which are discussed in the main text are highlighted in the margins. f.1a has a long note which praises this book and compares it to Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī. The folio f.209b has a saying attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in which he warns people about the eminent destruction of the cities when they are ruled by unjust rulers. Then the writer of the note apparently compares this saying to the status of Bayt al-Maqdis and Bilād al-Shām in 971 AH (after the scape of the ʿAlawiyyīn?). There is a Persian or Ottoman Turkish note on f.209. The first flyleaf has the date: 23 July. 1877 written on it in French.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Nakhlī in 1124? AH (who bought it legally); then it moved to the ownership of Ibrāhīm (wiped-out name) who bought it legally as well on f.1a (also the stamp of Ibrāhīm); BNF stamps on f.1a and f.208b.
- Colophon
Colophon of (wiped-out name) b. Muḥammad al-Mālikī the Imam of the mosque of (wiped-out name) in Damascus in the Saturday’s morning in Rab īʿ al-Thānī 970 AH f.208a.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords (but rather written too close to the original text)
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Titles and keywords are extensively rubricated in red. Also, red dots or inverted commas around poetry hemistiches and to denote rhyming).
- Writing material
- Material
Probably European Papers (but with no discernible watermark)
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.FakihatKhulafa
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 3536
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 3536
- Alternate Classmark
Supplément arabe 1599
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
1562 CE
في صبيحة نهار السبت اواخر ربيع الثاني سنة 970 هجرية
Language
Arabic
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