Title
Fākihat al-Khulafāʾ wa-Mufākahat al-Ẓurafāʾ
فاكهة الخلفاء ومفاكهة الظرفاء
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn ʿArabshāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
Physical description
Folios 220; Number of lines per page 23; Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 155 mm
صفحات 220; عدد السطور في الصفحة 23; طول الصفحة 210 ملم; عرض الصفحة 155 ملم
- Volume
-
- Lines
23
- Dimensions
Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 155 mm
- Text Area
150x95 mm (framed by two red lines).
- Number of folios
220
- Binding
Brown Leather with central engraved turanj and a flap.
Manuscript description
There are attached colored papers to mark the reading sections. Almost clean Margins except for few commentary and correction notes. In a few instances, the text is completed in the margins. And the topics discussed in the main text are mentioned in the margins (in few instances). The title in f.1a is written in a red triangle drawn within a red frame. There is at least one missing folio at the end as the colophon is not complete (but the work is complete). Several words were left blank especially at the end of the manuscript. Catch-title is written on the edges of the codex.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of Zaydān library (f.1a).
- Colophon
A colophon of Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Abū al-Fatḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿalī b. al-Jamāl al-Nabtītī al-Wafāʾī al-Anṣārī in 997 AH ( F.220b)
( الفراغ من نسخ هذا الكتاب المبارك سنة سبع و تسعين و تسعماية (...) كتبه شهاب الدين أحمد بن أبو الفتح ابن اسماعيل بن علي بن الجمال النبتيتي الوفائي الأنصاري ).
- Completeness
There is at least one missing folio at the end as the colophon is not complete (but the work is complete).
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords.
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Titles and keywords are rubricated in red). Dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs, and red dots to denote Sajʿ.
- Writing material
- Material
Most likely European papers.
- Color
Few papers are dark brown and rougher
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.FakihatKhulafa
Collection and Call number
El Escorial Library (La Real Biblioteca de El Escorial) - D. 514
- Location
El Escorial Library
- Current classmark
D. 514
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
و كان الفراغ من نسخ هذا الكتاب المبارك سنة سبع و تسعين و تسعماية 997 هجرية
1588-1589 CE/ 997 AH
Language
Arabic
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