Title
ʿAjāʾib al-Maqdūr fī Nawāʾib Tīmūr
عجائب المقدور في نوائب تيمور
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn ʿArabshāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
Physical description
Folios 272 (+vi); Number of lines per page 16; Leaf height 236 mm; Leaf width 152 mm
صفحات 272 (+6); عدد السطور في الصفحة 16; طول الصفحة 236 ملم; عرض الصفحة 152 ملم
- Volume
-
- Lines
16
- Dimensions
Leaf height 236 mm; Leaf width 152 mm
- Text Area
180x85 mm.
- Number of folios
272 (+vi)
- Binding
Manuscript description
Not extensive use of the margins: very few comments and correction notes, and indexing of names and other contents (in few instances). Some letters in the manuscript are vocalized. The copyist omitted the visualizations of the chessboard and the Uyghur alphabet which are drawn in some of the copies of the work. The first two folios are empty.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Bequest of Reverand Professor H.G. Williams (d. 1870) in 1870.
- Colophon
The colophon states that this manuscript is copied from the author's autograph.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Titles and keywords are rubricated in red). Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs, and red dots to denote saj.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
slightly tinted in yellow
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Add. 682
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Add. 682
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
1452 CE/ 856 AH
الفراغ من الكتابة في (سلخ؟) شهر شوال سنة ست و خمسين و ثمانمائة (856) هجرية
Language
Arabic
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