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 الثاني; صفحات 306; عدد السطور في الصفحة 24-21; طول الصفحة 268 ملم; عرض الصفحة 183 ملم
Vol. 2; Folios 306; Number of lines per page 21-24; Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 183 mm
- Volume
2
- Lines
21-24
- Dimensions
Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 183 mm
- Text Area
205x(135-140) mm.
- Number of folios
306
- Binding
Dark brown leather decorated by geometrical shapes and dotted in gold, and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover.
Manuscript description
Several folios are harmed by bookworms but still legible. Margins contain: few correction notes. Several places were left blank to be filled later. Numbering: in Arabic and Indian 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-Ḥanafī in 870 AH (f.306a).
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords.
- Script
- Style
Naskh script (but sometimes it tends to be more closer to Nastaʿlīq).
- Ink
Black metallic ink. Titles and keywords rubricated in red or bold black.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0852IbnHajarCasqalani.DurarKamina
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2940/2
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2940/2
- Alternate Classmark
An old call number is written on f.1a “151 Tārīkh”.
Genre
Biographical dictionary
Historiography
Historiography
Date
في عصر يوم الثلثا المبارك السابع من شهر رجب الفرد الحرام عام سبع و سبعين و ثمانمائة (877 هجرية)
1472 CE
Language
Arabic
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