Title
Inbāʾ al-Ghumr bi-Anbāʾ al-ʿUmr
إنباء الغمر بأنباء العمر
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abu l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Kinānī
Physical description
الجزء الثاني; صفحات 198; عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
Volume 2; Folios 198; Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Volume
2
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
200x130 mm (f.1b and f.2a are framed by gold lines)
- Number of folios
198
- Binding
Dark brown leather decorated by a draw of turanj and two pedants, and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover.
Manuscript description
The folio f.1a has an illuminated rectangular panel executed in gold, green and blue which has an upper cartouche that contains the title of the book, and a central rosette (surrounded by four small medallions) which contains the author’s name. Extensive use of the Margins which contain: correction notes; several and consistent commentary notes and announcements of the topics discussed in the main text. Sometimes, the sentences in the main text are completed in the margins. The mistara is clear in the entire manuscript. Folios f.i and f.198b have several illegible writing. Some information is written on added small papers in the middle of the book. The title of the book is written in gold on the fore-edge flap. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of ʿAbdullah b. Khalīl al-Ḥanafī in 888 AH (f.1a). Stamp of Sultan Ahmet III library (f.1a). TKSM stamps on (f.1a) and on f.3a.
- Colophon
Colophon dated 888 AH (f.198a).
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0852IbnHajarCasqalani.InbaGhumr
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2941/2
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2941/2
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Annalistic History
Biographies
Historiography
Biographies
Historiography
Date
نسخت سنة 888 هجرية
1483-1484 CE
Language
Arabic
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