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 2; Folios 237; Number of lines per page 25; Leaf height 314 mm; Leaf width 210 mm
الجزء الثاني; صفحات 237; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 310 ملم; عرض الصفحة 210 ملم
- Volume
2 (covers the period 801-836)
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 314 mm; Leaf width 210 mm
- Text Area
233x141 mm.
- Number of folios
237
- Binding
Manuscript description
The first folio has a very elaborately executed title page in gold, blue, and black with the catch-title written on the top cartouche (on the top the frame) and a central piece bearing the rest of the book's title and author’s name. Almost clean Margins which contain few correction notes. Completion of sentences in the margins.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Incomplete at the end.
- 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
H.Kh 13617
Open ITI
0874IbnTaghribirdi.NujumZahira
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Qq. 6
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Qq. 6
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
Most likely, it was copied in the 15th or the beginning of the 16th centuries (CE)
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن الخامس عشر أو في بداية القرن السادس عشر الميلادي
Language
Arabic
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