Title
Tārīkh Bayrūt: wa huwa Akhbār al-Salaf min Dhurrīyat Buḥtur b.ʿAlī Amīr al-Gharb bi-Bayrūt
تاريخ بيروت : وهو اخبار السلف من ذرية بحتر بن علي امير الغرب ببيروت
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Buḥtur, Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā al-Tanūkhī
Physical description
Folios 130 : Number of lines per page 15 ; leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 155 mm
130 صفحات; عدد السطور في الصفحة 15; طول الصفحة 210 ملم; عرض الصفحة 155 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
15
- Dimensions
leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 155 mm
- Text Area
135x105 mm
- Number of folios
130
- Binding
European binding
Manuscript description
Some passages are unclear (f.3a, f.81v). Undated manuscript, but it is probably a 15th-century copy. According to F. Hours and K. Salibi (page 10 of the 1969 edition), the manuscript is an autograph. However, some notes in the margins clearly indicate that the copyist is not the author (f.38v, f.40a, f.88a, f.129v). completion of the main text in the margins. Partially vocalized manuscript. Few notes and corrections in the margins. The folio f.1a has a drawing of a bird. Reading notes of: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muṣṭafā Qāḍī Zādeh; Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Abī Bakr dated 962 AH; other reading note which was completely scratched-out; Partially scratched-out reading note of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Munʿim [...] al-Fawārisī. Notes by: Etienne Baluze which mentions a report by Joseph de Guignes in 1790 (f.2a); Joseph Ascari dated 1735; and Joseph-Toussaint Reinaud.
- Ownership Statement
- Colophon
Colophon of Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Sūsī al-Rāwdī al-Tūnisī al-Mālikī al-Ashʿarī.
- Completeness
Incomplete at the end
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Headings and keywords are rubricated in red or gold.
- Writing material
- Material
Papers are not watermarked (Quinions gathering except the last quire which has 8 folios))
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
GAL,II,47
Open ITI
0840IbnBuhtur.TarikhBayrut
Collection and Call number
National Library of France ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 1670
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 1670
- Alternate Classmark
4584 (Colbert)
Ancien fonds arabe 821
817.3 (Regius)
Ancien fonds arabe 821
817.3 (Regius)
Genre
Historiography
History of cities
History of cities
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر ميلادية
Most probably it was copied between in the 15th century
Language
Arabic
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