Title
al-Dhahab al-Masbūk fī Dhikr man Ḥajj min al-Khulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk
االذهب المسبوك في ذكر من حج من الخلفاء والملوك
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Folios 78-105 : Number of lines per page 25 ; Leaf height 185 mm; Leaf width 113 mm
صفحات 78-105; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 185 ملم; عرض الصفحة 113 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 185 mm; Leaf width 113 mm
- Text Area
136x68 mm (framed by two red lines except the first page which has gold frame).
- Number of folios
78-105
- Binding
(case-binding) leather with a flap tucked under the upper cover, and full-cover decoration (frame, carved crimson mandorla and two pendants, and carved corner pieces).
Manuscript description
In a collection contains several short works of al-Maqrīzī, in addition to other short works on Hadith and Fiqh. Several empty folios at the end of the manuscript. F.1b has an ornate title-piece bears a basmala. The phrase ''Mā Shāʾ allāh, Lā quwwat illā bi-allāh'' is stamped over many pages.
- Ownership Statement
Unclear stamp of Al-Ḥāj (…) Ṣidqī. Bequest of Reverand Professor H.G. Williams (d. 1870) in 1870.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Partly pointed. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs. Completion of lines in the margin. Margins contain: correction and commentary notes.
- Writing material
- Material
European papers (some folios are tinted in rose, yellow, or green).
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.DhahabMasbuk
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Add. 746
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Add. 746
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Biography
Historiography
Historiography
Date
Most probably it was copied between the 16th-18th centuries (CE)
نسخت على الأرجح في القرنين السادس عشر و الثامن عشر ميلادية
Language
Arabic
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