Title
Al-Durar al-Kāmina fī Aʿyān al-Miʾa al-Thāmina
الدرر الكامنة في أعيان المائة الثامنة
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abu l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Kinānī
Physical description
الجزء الأول; صفحات 209 (+2); عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; طول الصفحة 267 ملم; عرض الصفحة 184 ملم
Vol. 1; Folios 209 (+ii); Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 267 mm; Leaf width 184 mm
- Volume
1
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 267 mm; Leaf width 184 mm
- Text Area
205x135 mm.
- Number of folios
209 (+ii)
- Binding
Dark brown leather decorated with a central medallion which contains geometrical shapes, and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The title of the book is written in gold on the fore-edge flap.
Manuscript description
Margins contain: few correction notes; few commentary notes, and completion of the sentences in the margins. There is an unclear commentary note on f.201a says that the commenter obtained a copy of a book (which probably contain a samāʿ note?) in 969 AH? The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon
- 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.DurarKamina
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2939/1
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2939/1
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Biographical dictionary
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن الخامس عشر او في النصف الأول من القرن السادس عشر الميلادي
Most likely, it was copied in the 15th or the first half of the 16th centuries (CE)
Language
Online resource