Title
al-Bayān wa-l-Iʿrāb ʿammā bi-Arḍ Miṣr min al-Aʿrāb
البيان والاعراب عما في أرض مصر من الأعراب
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
صفحات 1-18; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 185 ملم; عرض الصفحة 113 ملم
Folios 1-18; Number of lines per page 25; Leaf height 185 mm; Leaf width 113 mm
- Volume
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 185 mm; Leaf width 113 mm
- Text Area
136x68 mm (framed by two red lines except the first page which has gold frame).
- Number of folios
1-18
- Binding
(case-binding) leather with a flap tucked under the upper cover, and full-cover decoration (frame, carved crimson mandorla and two pendants, and carved corner pieces).
Manuscript description
In a collection contains several short works of al-Maqrīzī, in addition to other short works on Hadith and Fiqh. Completion of lines in the margin. Margins contain: correction and commentary notes. Several empty folios at the end of the manuscript. F.1b has an ornate title-piece which bears a basmala. The sentence ''Mā Shāʾ allāh, Lā quwwat illā bi-allāh'' is stamped over many pages.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Unclear stamp of Al-Ḥāj (…) Ṣidqī. Bequest of Reverand Professor H.G. Williams (d. 1870) in 1870.
- Colophon
Colophon of Yūsuf b. Muḥammad (who is known as) Ibn al-Wakīl al-Mallawī in 1112 AH.
- Completeness
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Partly pointed. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
European papers (some folios are Oriental tinted in rose, yellow, or green)
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
H.Kh 2000
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Bayan
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Add. 746
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Add. 746
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Genealogy
Historiography
Historiography
Date
تم الكتاب المبارك ليلة الاثنين سادس شهر رمضان سنة ألف و ماية و اثنى عشر 1112 هجرية
1701 CE/ 1112 AH
Language
Arabic
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