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 165 (غير مرقمة); عدد السطور في الصفحة 23; طول الصفحة 204 ملم; عرض الصفحة 126 ملم
Folios 165 (not numbered) : Number of lines per page 23 ; Leaf height 204 mm; Leaf width 126 mm
- Volume
-
- Lines
23
- Dimensions
Leaf height 204 mm; Leaf width 126 mm
- Text Area
151x69 mm (framed by one red line).
- Number of folios
165 (not numbered)
- Binding
Old binding with lobed centrepiece and flap.
Manuscript description
Margins contain: a few commentary notes, and on the first five folio’s a lot of content markers. The manuscript contains the chessboard layout on f.151a and Uyghur alphabet on f.156b.
- Ownership Statement
There is an effaced note on f.1a as well as an ownership note by a certain […] ʿAbdī.
- Colophon
The manuscript contains two colophons: the first is likely copied from the source manuscript and dated to the beginning of Rabīʿ I 84[1], which corresponds to the date given in the colophon of Dār al-Kutub Tārīkh 227. The second colophon is dated to 106[8]/1657 and gives the copyist’s name as Aḥmad b. Muṣṭafā b. Muḥammad [Afarsi?]zadeh and the location as Istanbul.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Taʿlīq script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication. Inverted comma’s to mark poetry and sajʿ, though the former is also often embedded in separate frames.
- Writing material
- Material
The papers are watermarked by “AC” with a cloverleaf.
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt) - Tārīkh Muṣṭafā Fāḍil 67 (دار الكتب و الوثائق القومية المصرية - تاريخ مصطفى فاضل 67)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Tārīkh Muṣṭafā Fāḍil 67
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
نسخت في سنة 1068 هجرية
1657 CE/ 1068 AH
Language
Arabic
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