Title
al-ʿIqd al-Thamīn fī Tārīkh al-Balad al-Amīn
العقد الثمين فى تاريخ البلد الامين
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Fāsī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-Ṭayyib Muḥammad b. Shihāb al-Dīn b. al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Makkī al-Mālikī
Physical description
Folios 273 : Number of lines per page 25 ; Leaf width 18 cm; leaf height 27.5 cm
الجزء الأول; ٢٧٣ صفحات; عدد السطور في الصفحة ٢٥; عرض الصفحة ١٨ سم، طول الصفحة ٢٧,٥ سم
- Volume
1
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf width 18 cm; leaf height 27.5 cm
- Text Area
195x125 mm
- Number of folios
273
- Binding
Flap binding tucked under the upper cover and decorated with a turanj.
Manuscript description
Naskh script. Few correction notes in the margins. Sometimes, the main text is completed in the margins. Some lines in folios f.9b-f.10a are scratched over.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of Muḥammad Tāj al-Dīn al-Munūfī (1081 AH); and two unclear ownership seals (f.1, f.273); two BNF stamps (f.1, f.273).
- Colophon
Unnamed colophon dated 891 AH.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent Use of Catchwords (some of them are trimmed)
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Headings and names are rubricated in red)
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers (not watermarked except the last folio which is probably added to the original manuscript) which is watermarked ( a star and a crescent)
- Color
The manuscript is written on two different types of papers
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0832AbuTayyibFasi.CiqdThamin
Collection and Call number
National Library of France ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 2123
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 2123
- Alternate Classmark
767 (Regius)
Arabe 719
Arabe 719
Genre
Historiography
History of Mecca
Topography
History of Mecca
Topography
Date
1486 CE
كان الفراغ من نسخه في يوم الجمعة سابع شهر شوال سنة ٨٩١ هجرية
Language
Arabic
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