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 الثالث; صفحات 168; عدد السطور في الصفحة 26; طول الصفحة 235 ملم; عرض الصفحة 160ملم
Volume 3; Folios 168; Number of lines per page 26; Leaf height 235 mm; Leaf width 160 mm
- Volume
2 (Covers the period from 524-675 AH)
- Lines
26
- Dimensions
Leaf height 235 mm; Leaf width 160 mm
- Text Area
- Number of folios
168
- Binding
European binding
Manuscript description
Naskh script. The first folio is worn out and missing its upper third. Very extensive use of the margins which contain several commentary and correction notes. The topics and names which are discussed in the main text are (sometimes) highlighted in the margins. Reading notes of Muḥammad [ʿĀl..?] (f.168b); Abū Bakr Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn [..?] b. Aḥmad [..?] Abū Bakr (f.168b); . The first flyleaf has the date: 18 June 1874 written in French.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Ismāʿīl b. Saʿd [al-Wahbī?] al-Shāfiʿī (f.1a).
- Colophon
An Autoghraph of Ibn Taghrībirdī f.168b
على يد مؤلفه الفقير الى عفو الله تعالى يوسف بن تغري بردي بن بشبغا الأتابكي
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
inconsistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Headings and names are rubricated in red and brown). And red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- 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 1779
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 1779
- Alternate Classmark
Supplément arabe 816 bis
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
بتاريخ ثاني شوال من سنة ستين و ثمانمائة (860 هجرية)
1456 CE
Language
Arabic
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