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 (من ثلاثة أجزاء); 299 صفحات; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 265 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180ملم
Volume 2 (out of 3); Folios 233; Number of lines per page 27; leaf height 265 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Volume
Volume 2 (out of 3)
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
leaf height 265 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
200x120 mm
- Number of folios
233
- Binding
Modern binding
Manuscript description
Contains the first half of the work according to the title, but in reality, it is volume 2 and it starts where manuscript volume 1 left off. Clean copy except for 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. Reading note of Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Aḥmad al-? (f.1a).
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Muḥammad Murtaḍā al-Ḥusaynī in 1119? (f.2a); and Aḥmad b. al-Ṣabbān? al-Ḥanafī (f.2a). Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.
- Colophon
Colophon of the famous historian: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Abū al-Naṣr Muḥammad b. Abū Khayr Muḥammad b. Fahd al-Hāshimī al-ʿAlawī al-Makkī in 878 AH.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with (not extensive) red rubrication (which in many places turned into brown) and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0832AbuTayyibFasi.CiqdThamin
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University Qq. 37
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Qq. 37
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
History of Mecca
Topography
History of Mecca
Topography
Date
شهر شوال احد شهور عام ثمانية و سبعين وثماني ماية 878 هجرية
1474 CE/ 878 AH
Language
Arabic
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