Title
ʿAjāʾib al-Maqdūr fī Nawāʾib Tīmūr
عجائب المقدور في نوائب تيمور
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn ʿArabshāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
Physical description
Folios 219; Number of lines per page 17; Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 167 mm
صفحات 219; عدد السطور في الصفحة 17; طول الصفحة 268 ملم; عرض الصفحة 167 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
17
- Dimensions
Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 167 mm
- Text Area
153x87 mm (some pages are framed by two gold lines till f.10, then till f.27 the frame is colored in green or blue. afterwards there are no frame).
- Number of folios
219
- Binding
(case-binding) brown cardboard with a flap tucked under the upper cover decorated with carved mandorla.
Manuscript description
Quite Unusually decorated manuscript. But it seems that the project of fully decorating it was suddenly interrupted. Thus, the first couple of folios were well-decorated (in gold, green, and blue), then some folios were (half-)decorated by clearly cheaper colors, while the rest of the manuscript is not decorated or framed at all. The folio f.1a has an ornate headpiece executed in gold and blues at the top of an empty gold frame. There are various decorative elements around the frame, which was executed in gold and green at the start of the manuscript, but then in blue, green, yellow, and crimson ink for the following folios. Not extensive use of the margins: few comments and correction notes. The letters are vocalized. The copyist kept the visualizations of the chessboard and the Uyghur alphabet which are omitted in some of the copies of the work. The margin of f.46 has a note about the fate of an ''unjust Ottoman ruler (ẓālim min ẓalamat banī ʿuthmān) during the ''Jalālian strife'' (i.e. al-Fitna al-Jalāliyyah) (followed by Persian/Ottoman writing). Reading note of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mālikī al-Madanī in 1019 AH (f.1a). Catch-title is written on the edges of the manuscript.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Unclear stamp f.1a. There is a note says ''Collated 27.6.68'' at the end of the book.
- Colophon
Unclear colophon of (Jalāl al-Dīn?) dated 1012 AH.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Titles and keywords are rubricated in red and sometimes in green). Dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs, and red dots to denote saj.
- Writing material
- Material
European papers (with no observable watermark). But it seems that the manuscript was executed on at least three different types of papers.
- Color
Some folios are tinted in rose, and decorated by flower drawings.
- Bibliographic Info
GAL II 29 [UAM. 732]
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
Bodleian Library, Oxford University - MS. Digby Or. 16
- Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
- Current classmark
MS. Digby Or. 16
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
1603 CE/ 1012 AH
نسخت في سنة 1012 هجرية
Language
Arabic
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