Title
Al-Durar al-Kāmina fī Aʿyān al-Miʾa al-Thāmina
الدرر الكامنة في أعيان المائة الثامنة
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abu l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Kinānī
Physical description
صفحات 980 & 990; عدد السطور في الصفحة 21; طول الصفحة 255 ملم; عرض الصفحة 182 ملم
Volume 1: 980 pages; Volume 2: 990 pages; (not foliated); Number of lines per page 21; Leaf height 255 mm; Leaf width 182 mm
- Volume
Volume 1 & 2
- Lines
21
- Dimensions
Leaf height 255 mm; Leaf width 182 mm
- Text Area
200x110 mm.
- Number of folios
Volume 1: 980 pages; Volume 2: 990 pages (paginated)
- Binding
Manuscript description
Two volumes executed by the same copyist filed under the same shelfmark. Several correction notes, as well as several marginal comments linking the information of the main text to other (often historiographical) texts. These later notes are often identified as being written by the important Egyptian writer Aḥmad Rāfiʿ al-Ṭahṭāwī (d. 1873). On p. 369 there are two notes introduced by the letter ḥ, short for ḥāshiyya. Some other notes compare the spelling of names to that found in other manuscript copies of the work. First volume has no colophon, but the colophon of the second volume is dated to 1335 (1916) and states that the manuscript was checked against a copy in the Dār al-Kutub al-Sulṭāniyya (presumably Topkapı in Istanbul) in the following year. The copyist is named as Muḥammad Abī l-ʿAynayn ʿAṭiyya. This copying date is problematic considering the death date of Ṭahṭāwī several years before. Perhaps the comments were made by an unattested descendant of al-Ṭahṭāwī. Before the colophon the colophon of the source manuscript has also been copied: it was dated to 24 Jumādā al-Ūlā 876 (8 November 1471), and was itself copied from a (perhaps autograph) manuscript dated to Rajab 830 (May 1427). The flyleaf of the second volume further informs that pp. 58-60 have been completed on the basis of a manuscript from Damascus. Both volumes are preceded by a table of contents.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements
- Colophon
First volume has no colophon, but the colophon of the second volume is dated to 1335 (1916)
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication.
- Writing material
- Material
Modern Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0852IbnHajarCasqalani.DurarKamina
Collection and Call number
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt) - Tārīkh 1312 (دار الكتب و الوثائق القومية المصرية - تاريخ 1312)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Tārīkh 1312
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Biographical dictionary
Historiography
Historiography
Date
1335 هجري
1916 CE/ 1335 AH
Language
Arabic
Online resource