Title
ʿAjāʾib al-Maqdūr fī Nawāʾib Tīmūr
عجائب المقدور في نوائب تيمور
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn ʿArabshāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
Physical description
Folios 179(+Vii); Number of lines per page 19; Leaf height 250 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
صفحات (+7) 179; عدد السطور في الصفحة 19; طول الصفحة 250 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
19
- Dimensions
Leaf height 250 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
164x108 mm (Framed by gold lines except for the title page which is framed in red).
- Number of folios
179(+Vii)
- Binding
Dark brown leather with full-cover decoration (decorated with a central stamped turanj, pendants, and a frame with four corner-pieces), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the cover is also leather decorated by frame and vegetal shapes.
Manuscript description
Paper folding: Folio. Margins contain: few commentary notes. The diacritic marks (tashkīl) is consistently written throughout the manuscript. The copyist kept the visualization of the Uygur letters (f.168b) and the chess board (f.163b) which are omitted in many other copies of the manuscript. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a. There is a tughra of perhaps Sultan Selim on f.178b.
- Colophon
Colophon dated 923 AH on f.178b.
- 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 and denote sajʿ.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 3048
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 3048
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
1517 CE
وافق الفراغ منها نهار الجمعة التاسع عشر من شهر رجب الفرد من شهور سنة ثلاث و عشرين و تسعماية (923 هجرية)
Language
Arabic
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