Title
al-Nujūm al-Zāhira fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-l-Qāhira
النجوم الزاهرة في ملوك مصر والقاهرة
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Taghrībirdī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abu l-Maḥāsin Yūsuf al-Atābkī
Physical description
volume 3; Folios 261 (+iv); Number of lines per page 23; Leaf height 314 mm; Leaf width 223 mm
الجزء الثالث; صفحات 261 (+4); عدد السطور في الصفحة 23; طول الصفحة 314 ملم; عرض الصفحة 223 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
23
- Dimensions
Leaf height 314 mm; Leaf width 223 mm
- Text Area
225x140 mm (the first couple of folios are framed by gold lines).
- Number of folios
261 (+iv)
- Binding
Brown leather decorated with small tools (golden central arabesque decoration, and golden decorated frame), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the covers are brown leather decorated with central golden arabesque theme, and glued to the first and last folios of the codex.
Manuscript description
Almost clean margins contain: very few commentary and correction notes (however there are several comments which have been trimmed), and (sometimes) the names of the ruler discussed in the text. Completion of sentences in the margins. Consistent use of catchwords. The main text ends on f.227a while f.228a,b contains a list of the rulers of Egypt mentioned in this volume of the book (ending with a note saying that this is for anybody who is interested in counting them, but you would find the details in the main text) (f.228b). Many papers are harmed by bookworms and water stains, but the main text is not affected. The mistara is clear throughout the manuscript. Papers are slightly trimmed. The folio f.1a has an illuminated rectangular panel executed in gold, (degrees of) brown, and blue which has the catch-title written on the upper part in an upper oval piece, and an ex-libris written in a medallion on the lower part which reads
“ برسم خزانة المقر الأشرفي الكريمي العالي المولوي الأميري العالي المخدومي السيفي قانصوه خمسمية الملكي الأشرفي أعز الله أنصاره بحمد السيرة''.
- Ownership Statement
Ex-libris of Qanṣūh Khamsmāʾah al-Malakī al-Ashrafī (f.1a). Stamp of, most probably, the library of Sultan Ahmet (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. (different degrees of) Red and gold rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Some folios are darker
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0874IbnTaghribirdi.NujumZahira
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2975
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2975
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 186”.
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Copied in the 15th century CE
Language
Arabic
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