Title
al-Durr al-Muntakhab fī Takmilat Tārīkh Ḥalab
الدر المنتخب في تكملة تاريخ حلب
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Khaṭīb al-Nāṣirīya, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abu l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Jibrīnī al-Shāfiʿī
Physical description
الجزء الثاني; 160 صفحات; عدد السطور في الصفحة 21; طول الصفحة 275 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
Volume 2; Folios 160; Number of lines per page 21; leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
- Volume
2
- Lines
21
- Dimensions
Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
- Text Area
185x120 mm
- Number of folios
160
- Binding
Solid brown leather binding with a large golden medallion and border decorations.
Manuscript description
Not extensive use of the margins. Reading notes: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Khayḍarī al-Shāfiʿī al-Dimashqī (d.894 AH); Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī al-Shāfiʿī (d.853); ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn b. Maḥmūd b. al-Muqriʾ (in 960 AH); Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn Abu-l-Khayr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Sakhāwī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 902 AH). The manuscript was bought by Ulrich Jasper Seetzen in (1809 CE) and has costed him 9 Piaster. The library's website gives detailed information about the readers and owners of this manuscript.
- Ownership Statement
The grandson of the author (sibṭ) al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Naṣībī al-Qurashī al-ʿUthmānī al-Ḥalabī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 983 AH); Aḥmad b. Fayḍ-Allāh (muftī al-salṭana al-ʿuthmāniyya); Ibrāhīm Ibn Asʿad pashā.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Missing folios at the end of the manuscript
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black and brownish-black ink (Headings are rubricated in red. On the title page, the work's title is written in gold, and the author's name in blue).
- Writing material
- Material
Papers are not watermarked.
- Color
Yellowish, soft, glazed
- Bibliographic Info
HKh. II 1877. 2205. III 4876
Open ITI
0843IbnKhatibNasiriya.DurrMuntakhab
Collection and Call number
Library of Gotha (Forschungsbibliothek Gotha) - Ms. orient. A 1772
- Location
Library of Gotha
- Current classmark
Ms. orient. A 1772
- Alternate Classmark
Möll. 276
Stz. Nr. 38
Stz. Nr. 38
Genre
Biographical Dictionary
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأغلب في النصف الأول من القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Most probably it was copied in the first half of the fifteenth century (CE)
Language
Arabic