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
Vol. 1; Pages 973 (not foliated); Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 172 mm
الجزء الأول; صفحات منفردة 973; عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 172 ملم
- Volume
1
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 172 mm
- Text Area
204x140mm.
- Number of folios
973 (Paginated)
- Binding
Modern binding
Manuscript description
Many corrections and additions throughout the text. However, most likely the marginal notes, reading notes, and ownership statements were copied from the original manuscript. The copyist states that the original manuscript was copied by al-Sakhāwī. This manuscript contains two parts of the same volume both parts were followed by an index. The first part ends at p.620. Several quotes from the book are written on P.1. Sometimes, the names which are discussed in the text are announced in the margins. Reading note of Khalīl b. Aḥmad al-Darrāk.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements (p.3) of: ʿInāyat Allāh Aḥmad b. Muḥammad; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Muḥammad al-Mudarris; Muḥammad Hibat Allāh al-Nājī (in 1215); and Muṣṭafā b.al-Ḥāj Aḥmad Barakāt Badrān al-Ḥalabī. Dār al-Kutub stamps (p.2 and p.3).
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Headings and names are rubricated in pale red)
- 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 3842 (دار الكتب و الوثائق القومية المصرية - تاريخ تيمور 3842)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Tārīkh 3842
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Biographical dictionary
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت في القرن التاسع عشر أو العشرين ميلادي
Copied in the 19th or the 20th centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
Online resource