Title
al-Durar al-Muḍīʾa fī Tāʾrīkh al-Duwal al-Islāmīya
الدرر المضيئة في تاريخ الدول الاسلامية
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Folios 273; Number of lines per page 29 ; Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 313 mm
عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; صفحات 273; طول الصفحة 313 ملم; عرض الصفحة 210 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 313 mm
- Text Area
250x160 mm
- Number of folios
273
- Binding
Modern binding
Manuscript description
Copied during the lifetime of the author or shortly after his death. Almost clean margins which contain few correction or commentary notes. The date or topic which is discussed in the main text is highlighted in the margins (but not consistently throughout the text). Sometimes, the sentences in the main text are completed in the margins. There is a visualization on f.272a in which Abbasid caliphs' names are written in two diverging lines which intersect in one point (and there are letters written around their names). Most probably, this visualization is related to the topic which al-Maqrizi was discussing on f.271b that is a malḥama that predicted the end of the Abbasid Caliphate on the 660s AH. The copyist left half of f.271b empty because he needed a larger space for the drawing, or he could have left the space for another drawing which he did not complete.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Naskh script. Black ink (red rubrication for titles and keywords, and in few instances there are red dots and overlinings).
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.DurarMudiah
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Qq. 2
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Qq. 2
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
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
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