Title
ʿUnwān al-Zamān fī Tarājim al-Shuyūkh wa-l-Aqrān
تاريخ عنوان الزمان بتراجم الشيوخ و الأقران
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Biqāʿī, Burhān al-Dīn Abu l-Ḥasan Ibrāhīm b.ʿUmar
Physical description
العمل كلملا في أربعة أجزاء; صفحات 500, 426, 447, 422; عدد السطور في الصفحة 21; طول الصفحة 253 ملم; عرض الصفحة 176 ملم
Full copy of this work in four volumes; Pages 500, 426, 447, 422; Number of lines per page 21; Leaf height 253 mm; Leaf width 176 mm
- Volume
Full copy of this work in four volumes.
- Lines
21
- Dimensions
Leaf height 253 mm; Leaf width 176 mm
- Text Area
178x96mm (with some variations)
- Number of folios
500, 426, 447, 422 (paginated)
- Binding
Manuscript description
Like many other manuscripts in the Taymūr collection, this is a very late copy written on modern paper. All the volumes bear a note informing of the fact that this copy was updated with information taken from a manuscript copy of al-Biqāʿī’s later abridgement “ʿUnwān al-ʿUnwān”, which is noted to be present in the Dār al-kutub under the shelfmark Tārīkh 1474. It is mentioned that this later work updated much information from the original work, especially adding death dates of recently deceased persons. Throughout the volumes one thus finds several marginal notes stating that particular information was taken from that abridgement. However, on p. 180 of the fourth volume the copyist Maḥmūd Ṣidqī notes that he could not continue to add such information as consistently as the order of the manuscript of the ʿUnwān al-ʿUnwān was different to that of the original work. Additionally there are correction notes in pencil. The copy that was used as the basis for this copy is not an original manuscript in the Dār al-kutub, but a manuscript from Astana from which a microfilm copy exists in the Dār al-kutub (shelfmark 1001 Tārīkh).
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Taymūr seals on the first page of each volume.
- Colophon
There are colophons only at the end of volumes two and four (both dated to 1345/1926) of the copyist Maḥmūd Ṣidqī.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red overlining for keywords.
- Writing material
- Material
Modern Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0885Biqaci.CunwanZaman
Collection and Call number
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt) - Tārīkh Taymūr 2255 (دار الكتب و الوثائق القومية المصرية - تاريخ تيمور 2255)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Tārīkh Taymūr 2255
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Biographical Dictionary
Date
نسخت سنة 1345 هجرية
1926 CE/ 1345 AH
Language
Arabic
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