Title
Nihāyat al-Arab fī Maʿrifat Qabā'il al-ʿArab
نهاية الأرب في معرفة قبائل العرب
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Qalqashandī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Fazārī
Physical description
صفحات 217 (+3); عدد السطور في الصفحة 19; طول الصفحة 240 ملم; عرض الصفحة 145 ملم
Folios 217 (+iii); Number of lines per page 19; Leaf height 240 mm; Leaf width 145 mm
- Volume
-
- Lines
19
- Dimensions
Leaf height 240 mm; Leaf width 145 mm
- Text Area
178x123mm.
- Number of folios
217 (+iii)
- Binding
Old binding oriental with a flap and a small centrepiece, but it is likely still more recent than the manuscript itself.
Manuscript description
Margins contain: correction notes in different hands, text section markers, and at some points very extensive commentary notes/additions (37b, 102b). The title page has a short biography of the author, written in the same handwriting as the title and the author's name. Following the end of the main text, there are two folio’s containing different, difficult to read, but apparently unrelated notes: the first on f.218b deals with borrowing and lending books and is written in a hybrid Perso-Arabic, while the second on f.219b is basically a name with a very long lineage of qāḍī’s. This is then followed by 1,5 folio’s of what seems to be a private library catalogue identified as “Fihrist Kitābkhānah ḥaḍrat Mīr Qamar Allāh ṣāḥib Quds […]”.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership note on flyleaf by a certain ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Darūsī. There and on 217a there are also waqf seals of al-Ḥusaynī dated 1323/1904-5.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining.
- Writing material
- Material
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0876Qalqashandi.Nihaya
Collection and Call number
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt) - Ṭalʿat 2027 (دار الكتب و الوثائق القومية المصرية - طلعت 2027)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Ṭalʿat 2027
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Genealogy
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت بين القرنين السادس عشر و الثامن عشر ميلادي
Most likely, it was copied between the 16th or the 18th centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
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