Title
al-ʿIqd al-Thamīn fī Tārīkh al-Balad al-Amīn
العقد الثمين فى تاريخ البلد الامين
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Fāsī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-Ṭayyib Muḥammad b. Shihāb al-Dīn b. al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Makkī al-Mālikī
Physical description
الجزء الثاني; 212 صفحات; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 258 ملم; عرض الصفحة 173 ملم
Volume 2; Folios 212; Number of lines per page 27; leaf height 258 mm; Leaf width 173 mm
- Volume
2
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
leaf height 258 mm; Leaf width 173 mm
- Text Area
200x135 mm
- Number of folios
212
- Binding
Modern binding
Manuscript description
The folie f.1b-f.3a are empty (while the title page is on f.1a and the text starts on f.3b). Clean copy except few correction notes, and completion of the main text in the margins.
- Ownership Statement
Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819 CE. An effaced statement of ʿAbdullah b. Muḥammad (the Muftī of Mecca) who bought it legally from (or under the witnessing of) the Shaykh ʿAlī al-Ḥasanī in the year 9? AH (f.1a); and an effaced statement of Muḥammad Abī al-Makram? Al-Zaʿbalī? (the Kātib?) of the Imām Zayn al-ʿĀbdīn al-Shaṭrī? In 1078AH (f.1a)
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs, and red dots to denote sajʿ.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental papers. The folios f.1-f.13 are newer than the rest of the manuscript and probably unwatermarked European papers (and probably from the 16th century).
- Color
Papers are stained but still clearly legible (The edges of the papers are slightly trimmed)
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0832AbuTayyibFasi.CiqdThamin
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University Qq. 43
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Qq. 43
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
History of Mecca
Topography
History of Mecca
Topography
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر أو السادس عشر الميلادي
Most likely, it was copied in the 15th or the 16th centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
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