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
صفحات 229; عدد السطور في الصفحة 33; طول الصفحة 310 ملم; عرض الصفحة 215 ملم
Volume 2; Folios 229; Number of lines per page 33; Leaf height 310 mm; Leaf width 215 mm
- Volume
2 ( Covers the period 784-836 AH)
- Lines
33
- Dimensions
Leaf height 310 mm; Leaf width 215 mm
- Text Area
240x140 mm.
- Number of folios
229
- Binding
Black leather with a central turanj
Manuscript description
Vocalized manuscript. Few correction notes in the margins. Completion of the main text in the margins. Ornate frontispiece which contains the book's title on the upper cartouche and the name of the author (written by a more modern hand) in a central rosette. There is a a folio from the same work, but from a different manuscript glued to the verso side of the first flyleaf. The first flyleaf has the date: 18 January 1873 written in French.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements
- 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
Open ITI
0874IbnTaghribirdi.NujumZahira
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 1787
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 1787
- Alternate Classmark
Ancien fonds Arabe 666
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت في القرن الخامس عشر ميلادي
Copied in the 15th century CE
Language
Arabic
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