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
الجزء الأول; صفحات 340; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27-21; طول الصفحة 269 ملم; عرض الصفحة 192 ملم
Vol. 1; Folios 340; Number of lines per page 21-27; Leaf height 269 mm; Leaf width 192 mm
- Volume
1
- Lines
21-27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 269 mm; Leaf width 192 mm
- Text Area
215x140 mm
- Number of folios
340
- Binding
Dark brown leather decorated by geometrical shapes and dotted in gold, and a decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover.
Manuscript description
The quality of the handwriting varies but it is probably written by one script. Margins contain: few correction notes. Several places were left blank to be filled later. Numbering: in Arabic and Indo-Arabic numbers. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
Stamp of Sultan Ahmet III library (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
Colophon of Dāwūd al-Khaṭīb al-Jawharī in 870 AH.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script (but sometimes it tends to be more closer to Nastaʿlīq and the titles are written in Ruqʿa script).
- Ink
Black metallic ink. Titles and keywords rubricated in red or bold black.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Some folios are darker and the black ink on them is mostly illegible probably due to the effect of the metallic ink
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0852IbnHajarCasqalani.DurarKamina
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2940/1
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2940/1
- Alternate Classmark
An old call number is written on f.1a “151 Tārīkh”.
Genre
Biographical dictionary
Historiography
Historiography
Date
في ليلة السبت المصبح عن العشرين من شهر رجب الفرد الحرام عام سبعين و ثمان مايه (870 هجرية)
1466 CE
Language
Arabic
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