Title
Nihāyat al-Arab fī Maʿrifat Ansāb al-ʿArab
نهاية الأرب في معرفة أنساب العرب
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Qalqashandī, Najm al-Dīn Ibn Abī Ghudda Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Fazārī
Physical description
Folios 228; Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
صفحات 187; عدد السطور في الصفحة 21; طول الصفحة 265 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
200x120 mm
- Number of folios
228
- Binding
Leather binding with a flap tucked under the upper cover and decorated with a turanj.
Manuscript description
Few correction notes in the margins. Completion of the main text in the margins. Dedicated to Zayn al-Dīn Abu-l-Jūd Baqar b. Rāshid al-Zaynī (the great emir of the nomadic Arabs of the eastern and western lands. The second flyleaf has the date: 25 January 1873 written in French.
- Ownership Statement
Acquired in 1835 from Pascal de Gayangos. Ownership Statements of: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Qāsim al-Zaynī the grandson of Zayn al-Dīn Baqar (187b); unclear statements f.1a; Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Barr.
- Colophon
An Autograph of the author (f.187b).
نجزت كتابته على يد مؤلفه محمد بن أحمد القلقشندي الشافعي
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and three red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0876Qalqashandi.Nihaya
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 2049
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 2049
- Alternate Classmark
Supplément arabe 655
Genre
Genealogy
Historiography
Historiography
Date
في شهور سنة ست وأربعين و ثمان مايه (846 هجرية)
1442-1443 CE
Language
Arabic
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