Title
Risāla fī al-Nuqūd al-Qadīma wa-l-Islāmīya
رسالة في النقود القديمة والاسلامية
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Folios 138-148; Number of lines per page 25; Leaf height 185 mm; Leaf width 113 mm
صفحات 138-148; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 185 ملم; عرض الصفحة 113 ملم
- Volume
-
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 185 mm; Leaf width 113 mm
- Text Area
136x68 mm (framed by two red lines except for the first page which has a gold frame).
- Number of folios
f.138-f.148
- 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
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Unclear stamp of Al-Ḥāj (…) Ṣidqī. ''Mā Shāʾ allāh, Lā quwwat illā bi-allāh'' is stamped over many pages. Bequest of Reverand Professor H.G. Williams (d. 1870) in 1870.
- Colophon
No colophon (there is a colophon on other work in this collection but we cannot be sure if they are written by the same person)
- Completeness
Complete
- 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
- Color
Some folios are tinted in rose, yellow, or green.
- Bibliographic Info
H.Kh 2000
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.ShudhurCuqud
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Add. 746
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Add. 746
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Economic History
Numismatics
Numismatics
Date
نسخت بين القرنين السابع عشر و الثامن عشر ميلادية
Most probably, it was copied in the 17th or the 18th centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
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