Title
Inbāʾ al-Ghumr bi-Anbāʾ al-ʿUmr
إنباء الغمر بأنباء العمر
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abu l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Kinānī
Physical description
الجزء الأول; صفحات 258 عدد السطور في الصفحة 31; طول الصفحة 275 ملم; عرض الصفحة 185 ملم
Volume 1; Folios 258; Number of lines per page 31; Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
- Volume
1
- Lines
31
- Dimensions
Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
- Text Area
200 x 120 mm.
- Number of folios
258
- Binding
Brown leather with central mandorla (82 x 47 mm)
Manuscript description
Clear miṣṭara. The first folio is not clear due to the ink of the title on the opposite of the folio. Several commentary notes historicizing the topics discussed in the main text and even sometimes correcting Ibn Ḥajar's comments. Completion of the main text in the margins. The topics discussed in the main text are highlighted in the margins. There are two notes on the folio f.1b discuss the birth of certain Aḥmad Raḍī al-Dīn Abū Ṭāhir in 866 Ah and his death on 867 AH. Another statement of the birth of (…) Hājar? In 86? (f.1b). The folio f.2a contains a note about the death date of the famous ḥadīth compiler al-Bukharī. Reading notes of ʿUthmān b. Abī Bakr b. Aḥmad (f.2a), ʿAbd al-Kāfī b. 'Abd al-Bāsiṭ b. Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (f .258b). The last two folios are numbered in red. The first flyleaf has the date 17 January 1873 written in Latin.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Muhammad b.ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. Yūsuf al-Ḥillī al-Shāfiʿī (f.1a) ; ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq (f.2a); Stamp of the merchant Jean Magy (f.258b). ); ʿAbd al-Qadir b. Abu Bakr in Upper Egypt (934 AH) who inherited it from his father (f.2a)
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
BROCKELMANN (C), Geschichte der arabischen Literatur,II 2 p. 83;Suppl.II p. 74;
Open ITI
0852IbnHajarCasqalani.InbaGhumr
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) -Arabe 1601
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 1601
- Alternate Classmark
745 (Regius)
Ancien fonds arabe 656
Ancien fonds arabe 656
Genre
Annalistic History
Biographies
Historiography
Biographies
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Most probably it was copied in the fifteenth century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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