Title
al-Bayān wa-l-Iʿrāb ʿammā bi-Arḍ Miṣr min al-Aʿrāb
ﺍﻟﺒﻴﺎﻥ ﻭﺍﻹﻋﺮﺍﺏ ﻋﻤﺎ ﺑﺄﺭﺽ ﻣﺼﺮ ﻣﻦ ﺍﻷﻋﺮﺍﺏ
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Pages 21 (not foliated); Number of lines per page 23 ; Leaf height 189 mm; Leaf width 136 mm
صفحات (منفردة) 21; عدد السطور في الصفحة 23; طول الصفحة 189 ملم; عرض الصفحة 136 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
23
- Dimensions
Leaf height 189 mm; Leaf width 136 mm
- Text Area
153x90mm (though slightly variable).
- Number of folios
21 Pages (not foliated)
- Binding
Manuscript description
Some correction notes. Title page contains a note about Khālid b. al-Mughīra taken from Ibn Ḥazm’s “Kitāb al-ansāb''. Next to the note the name al-Najm al-Ghayṭī is written.
- Ownership Statement
Taymūr seal on title page.
- Colophon
The colophon which dates the work to Dhū l-Qaʿda 841 / February-March 1438 is probably copied from the manuscript on which this copy is based, as the manuscript does not come across as a fifteenth century copy.
- Completeness
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black with red rubrication (text sections in the margins) and dots throughout the text. A distinctive layout feature is that every new tribe is introduced by a red letter “wāw”.
- Writing material
- Material
European paper with tre lune watermark.
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Bayan
Collection and Call number
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt) - Tārīkh Taymūr 1527 (دار الكتب و الوثائق القومية المصرية - تاريخ تيمور 1527)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Tārīkh Taymūr 1527
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Genealogy
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت بين القرنين السادس عشر والتاسع عشر ميلادي
Copied between the 16th and the 19th Centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
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