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 170; عدد السطور في الصفحة 21; طول الصفحة 227 ملم; عرض الصفحة 143 ملم
Folios 170; Number of lines per page 21; Leaf height 227 mm; Leaf width 143 mm
- Volume
-
- Lines
21
- Dimensions
Leaf height 227 mm; Leaf width 143 mm
- Text Area
163x 80 mm (framed by Gold and Black lines).
- Number of folios
170
- Binding
Crimson decorated leather.
Manuscript description
Decorated headpiece (green and golden floral semi-circular piece) and a blank titlepiece. Clean copy with some notes and comments (some comments are written in Persian or Ottoman). The copyist frames his corrections by a golden rectangle. There is a decorated titlpiece which contains a bsamala before the author's Khātima at f.166a and f.166b. The copyist kept the visualizations of the chessboard (f.155b) and the Uyghur alphabet (f.160a,b) which are dropped in some of the copies of the work. There is a stamp on f.1a contains two Arabic verses written by the Persian poet Saʿadī in which he praises the Prophet Muḥammad:
''بلغ العلى بكماله كشف الدجى بجماله حسنت جميع خصاله صلوا عليه و آله''.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. The British Museum obtained this manuscript in 1817.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Titles and keywords are rubricated in red).
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
British Library - ADD 7322
- Location
British Library
- Current classmark
ADD 7322
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
Most probably it was copied in the 16th century (CE)
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن السادس عشر الميلادي
Language
Arabic
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