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 111 ; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 205 ملم; عرض الصفحة 130 ملم
Folios 111; Number of lines per page 27; Leaf height 205 mm; Leaf width 130 mm
- Volume
-
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 205 mm; Leaf width 130 mm
- Text Area
170x95 mm.
- Number of folios
111
- Binding
brown leather with a flap tucked under the upper cover, and carved mandorla.
Manuscript description
Not extensive use of the margins: comments and correction notes. 5 Added papers before the work(three of them are modern and not counted, hence the text starts on f.3b). 4 Added modern papers at the end which are not counted as well. The copyist kept the visualizations of the chessboard and the Uyghur alphabet which are omitted in some of the copies of the work. There is a comment on f.7b wondering why certain Shaykh helped the unjust ruler Tīmūr (which is mentioned in the main text), and explaining that by referring to god's destiny, and that God chooses his agent to fulfill His will (f.7b). Several Poetry verses (f.2a; f.2b). Reading note of Ramaḍān b. Mūsā al-ʿUṭayfī in 1078 AH, and unnamed one in 1095 (written under the number 239 followed by the Arabic letter ''shīn'').
- Ownership Statement
Several ownership statements of: Khalīl Muḥammad (the Imam of the Umayyad mosque) (f.3a); Aḥmad al-ʿUmarī al-Muṣilī in Constantinople in 1182 AH (f.3a); unnamed statements in 1214 AH and 1180 AH (f.3a); Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr (and his stamp) (f.2a). Bequest of R.L. Bensly (1831-1893) in 1895
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with very extensive use of red rubrication. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs, and red dots to denote saj.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Add. 3237
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Add. 3237
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
Copied before 1078 AH
نسخت قبل سنة 1078 هجرية
Language
Arabic
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