Title
Tārīkh al-Badr fī Awṣāf Ahl al-ʿAṣr
تاريخ البدر في أوصاف أهل العصر
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-ʿAynī, Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad
Physical description
صفحات 192; عدد السطور في الصفحة 31; طول الصفحة 272 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
Folios 192; Number of lines per page 31; Leaf height 272 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Volume
Deals with the period 717-797 AH
- Lines
31
- Dimensions
Leaf height 272 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
210x135.
- Number of folios
192
- Binding
Modern Binding.
Manuscript description
Almost clear margins (Very few correction notes). The book starts with the events of the 717 AH and ends with the events 797 AH. There is a brief modern table of content on added paper at the beginning of the work. The folio f.2a has calculations (while f.2b is empty). There is a different title on an old dark paper (i.e. f.1a):
''هذا كتاب تاريخ يذكر ما جرا في بر الشام و غير مكان''.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of: Ibrāhīm Afandī Kātib f.3a; ʿUmar Ibrāhīm al-Mahdī al-Ḥanafī f.4a; and an unclear stamp. f.4a. British Muesum stamps (f.1a;f.4a; f.192b). Note typed on added paper at the end of the book says: ''Bought of the B. (Quaulit?) 8 February 1858''.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Deals with the period 717-797 AH
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
- Ink
Black ink with very extensive red rubrication (red dots around poetry hemistichs and overlinings).
- Writing material
- Material
Watermarked European papers (except f.1)
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0855BadrDinCayni.TarikhAlbadr
Collection and Call number
British Library - Add 22360
- Location
British Library
- Current classmark
Add 22360
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Universal History
Universal History
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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