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 الأول (من أربعة أجزاء); 234 صفحات; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 275 ملم; عرض الصفحة 188 ملم
Volume 1 (out of 4); Folios 234; Number of lines per page 27; leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 188 mm
- Volume
1 (out of 4)
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 188 mm
- Text Area
200x135 mm
- Number of folios
234
- Binding
Modern binding
Manuscript description
Clean copy except few correction notes, and completion of the main text in the margins. Some places inside the text are left blank and the copyist states in the margins that they were blank in the original copy as well. Unnamed reading note dated 1233AH.
- Ownership Statement
Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.
- Colophon
Colophon of Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl al-Biltājī in 1115 AH.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with (not extensive) red rubrication and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
European unwatermarked papers
- Color
The edges of the papers are stained.
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0832AbuTayyibFasi.CiqdThamin
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University Qq. 31
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Qq. 31
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
History of Mecca
Topography
History of Mecca
Topography
Date
يوم السبت 22 شعبان سنة 1115 هجرية
1703 CE/1115 AH
Language
Arabic
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