Title
Kitāb Qahwat al-Inshāʾ
كتاب قهوة الإنشاء
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Ḥijja al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī
Physical description
صفحات 97 (+6); عدد السطور في الصفحة 13; طول الصفحة 170 ملم; عرض الصفحة 120 ملم
Folios 97 (+vi) ; Number of lines per page 25 ; Leaf height 170 mm; Leaf width 120 mm
- Volume
- Lines
13
- Dimensions
Leaf height 170 mm; Leaf width 120 mm
- Text Area
110x70 mm
- Number of folios
97 (+vi)
- Binding
European crimson leather designed with golden frame, and the BNF’s emblem stamped in the center.
Manuscript description
Not extensive use of the margins: few correction notes. The main text is completed on the margins. The folio f.97b has what it seems like the price of the manuscript 30 Qirsh. Quite an ornate frontispiece executed in gold, green, blue and white (with a decorated medallion to its left). It has an upper cartouche that contains the title of the book (الاول من قهوة الانشاء) written with beautiful calligraphy, and a lower compartment which was originally left blank and was filled by the ownership statement of Muḥammd b Aḥmad b. (al-Farqūs/ al-Furqawī?) in ink (f.1a). The first flyleaf has the date: 1 Feb. 1876 written on it in French.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Muḥammd b Aḥmad b. (al-Farqūs/al-Furqawī?) al-Shāfiʿī; BNF stamps on f.1a and f.97b; three unclear stamps (f.1a, f.1a, f.97a)
- Colophon
Colophon of ʿAbd al-Kāfī b. Aḥmad al-Dhahabī al-Shāfiʿī in 845 AH (f.97a)
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Inconsistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Titles and keywords are rubricated in red. Also, red dots or inverted commas were used around poetry hemistiches and at the end of sentences to denote rhyming).
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Papers are brown, thick, and rough
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0837IbnCaliIbnHijjaHamawi.QahwatInsha
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 4438
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 4438
- Alternate Classmark
1135 (Regius)
Ancien fonds arabe 1613
Ancien fonds arabe 1613
Genre
Adab
Chancery manual
Chancery manual
Date
في العشر الأوسط من شعبان المكرم سنة خمس و أربعين (على الأغلب 845 هجرية)
1442 CE
Language
Arabic
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