Title
al-Ilmām bi-Akhbār man bi-Arḍ al-Ḥubsh min Mulūk al-Islām
الإلمام باخبار من بأرض الحبش من ملوك الاسلام
Alternative title
al-Ilmām bi-Akhbār man bi-Arḍ al-Ḥabasha min Mulūk al-Islām
الالمام بأخبار من بأرض الحبشة من ملوك الإسلام
الالمام بأخبار من بأرض الحبشة من ملوك الإسلام
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
١٢ صفحات; عدد السطور في الصفحة ١٩; طول الصفحة 207 ملم; عرض الصفحة 155 ملم
12 folio's (though title page is not numbered) : 19 lines per page ; Leaf height: 207 mm; Leaf width: 155 mm
- Volume
- Lines
19
- Dimensions
Leaf height: 207 mm; Leaf width: 155 mm
- Text Area
136x85 mm
- Number of folios
12 folio's (though title page is not numbered)
- Binding
Manuscript description
Very neatly writtten. one correction note on f.3b. Occasional completions of lines outside of the writing surface.
- Ownership Statement
Title page notes that the work was bought from the bequest (tarika) of Qāsim Pāshā on the 26th of April 1881. Khedival stamps on folio's f.1a (title page) and f.11b.
- Colophon
Colophon is identical to that of the holograph Leiden manuscript, from which this manuscript may be a copy.
- Completeness
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black with extensive rubricating in red. Until folio 5a extra marginal markers of text sections in red.
- Writing material
- Material
European paper but no discernable watermark.
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Ilmam
Collection and Call number
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt) Tārīkh 500 - (دار الكتب والوثائق القومية المصرية - تاريخ 500)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Tārīkh 500
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Geography
Historiography
Historiography
Date
Most probably it was copied between the 16th-18th centuries (CE)
نُسخت على الأغلب بين القرنين السادس عشر والثامن عشر الميلادي
Language
Arabic
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