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
Vol. 2; Folios 217 (+ii); Number of lines per page 32-33; Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 188 mm
الجزء الثاني; صفحات 217 (+2); عدد السطور في الصفحة 32-33; طول الصفحة 268 ملم; عرض الصفحة 188 ملم
- Volume
2
- Lines
32-33
- Dimensions
Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 188 mm
- Text Area
205x135 mm.
- Number of folios
217 (+ii)
- Binding
Dark brown leather decorated with a central decorated turanj (and there is brown vegetal decoration in the inside of the cover), and a decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover.
Manuscript description
Margins contain: few correction and commentary notes. Sometimes, the dates or the names discussed in the main text are written in the margins. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
ownership statement on f.1a which says that this manuscript and the first volume are owned by their copyist “Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Muẓaffarī”. Ownership statement of “ Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ẓahīra? Al-Qurashī al-Shafiʿī (or al-Dimashqī?) in the year (??66 AH). Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon. However, there is an ownership statement on f.1a says that this manuscript and the first volume are owned by their copyist “Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Muẓaffarī”.
- 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. 2939/2
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2939/2
- Alternate Classmark
An old call number is written on f.1a “151 Tārīkh”.
Genre
Biographical dictionary
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن الخامس عشر او في النصف الأول من القرن السادس عشر الميلادي
Copied in the 15th century or the first half of the 16th century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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