Title
al-Nujūm al-Zāhira fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-l-Qāhira
النجوم الزاهرة في ملوك مصر والقاهرة
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Taghrībirdī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abu l-Maḥāsin Yūsuf al-Atābkī
Physical description
الجزء الخامس; صفحات 224; عدد السطور في الصفحة 17; طول الصفحة 260 ملم; عرض الصفحة 185 ملم
Volume 5; Folios 224; Number of lines per page 17; Leaf height 260 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
- Volume
5
- Lines
17
- Dimensions
Leaf height 260 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
- Text Area
190x125 mm
- Number of folios
224
- Binding
Leather with a central turanj and two pendants.
Manuscript description
According to the title, this manuscript is the ninth volume. However, in the last page Ibn Taghrībirdī states that it is the fifth volume. The last page has a quotation of al-Shāfiʿī. The Arabic alphabet is written on the first page (rather in a wrong order at the end). Partially vocalised. Few notes and corrections at the start of the manuscript and very extensive corrections at the end. Completion of the notes in the margins. The first folio has the date: 18 January 1873 written in Latin.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Shaykh Yūsuf al-Maṣrī (al-Bard?); Abū Bakr al-Ḥamrawī (who is writing the invocation word against insects ''kabīkaj'' three times under his name); two ownership seals; unclear statement in 1001 AH; (Amīr Kabīr) al-ʿAlāʾī Sayyid ʿAlī the son of ''al-maqarr'' Ṭūghān al-Nūrūzī al-Malakī al-Ashrafī (f.1a)
- Colophon
An Autograph by Ibn Taghrībird (f.224b).
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and red inverted commas (or circles) around poetry hemistichs (and at the end of some sentences).
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0874IbnTaghribirdi.NujumZahira
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 1786
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 1786
- Alternate Classmark
Ancien fonds arabe 665
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Copied in the 15th century CE
Language
Arabic
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