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
صفحات 162; عدد السطور في الصفحة 21; طول الصفحة 273 ملم; عرض الصفحة 176 ملم
Folios 162; Number of lines per page 21; Leaf height 273 mm; Leaf width 176 mm
- Volume
-
- Lines
21
- Dimensions
Leaf height 273 mm; Leaf width 176 mm
- Text Area
(mostly) 209x130 mm (some pages are framed by two red lines).
- Number of folios
162
- Binding
Modern binding
Manuscript description
Very extensive use of the margins: comments and correction notes. Most of the letters in the manuscript are vocalized. The copyist kept the visualizations of the chessboard and the Uyghur alphabet which are omitted in some of the copies of the work. Several Poetry verses (f.1a). There is a note about the death date and place of the author (f.162b).
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. There is a note says ''Collated 27.6.68'' at the end of the book.
- Colophon
Colophon of ʿAbd al-Qādir b. ʿUmar b. Abī Bakr al-Maṣrī al-Shāfiʿī.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Titles and keywords are rubricated in red and sometimes in green). Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs, and red dots to denote saj.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
GAL II 29 [UAM. UAM. 717]
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
Bodleian Library, Oxford University - MS. Laud Or. 148
- Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
- Current classmark
MS. Laud Or. 148
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
1455 CE/859- 860 AH (the date is obtained from the library's catalog)
نسخت في سنة 859 أو 860 هجرية (تاريخ النسخ منقول من فهرس المكتبة)
Language
Arabic
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