Title
Fākihat al-Khulafāʾ wa-Mufākahat al-Ẓurafāʾ
فاكهة الخلفاء ومفاكهة الظرفاء
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn ʿArabshāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
Physical description
Folios 328 (+iii); Number of lines per page 17; Leaf height 204 mm; Leaf width 142 mm
صفحات (+3) 328; عدد السطور في الصفحة 17; طول الصفحة 204 ملم; عرض الصفحة 142 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
17
- Dimensions
Leaf height 204 mm; Leaf width 142 mm
- Text Area
148x88mm (Framed by gold line till f.9 then a green one till the end of the manuscript).
- Number of folios
328 (+iii)
- Binding
brown leather with full-cover decoration (decorated with a central stamped turanj, pendants, and a frame with four corner-pieces and painted in gold and crimson), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover (stamped and in gold as well). The inside of the cover is colored paper.
Manuscript description
Paper folding: Quarto. Almost clean margins. The folio f.1b has a decorated head piece: rectangular blue panel decorated by golden vegetal shapes and with central golden turanj (with a basmala written in it by not a good handwriting), surmounted by a miḥrāb which is decorated by vegetal shapes as well. Numbering: in Arabic and Indo-Arabic. The diacritic marks (tashkīl) are consistently written throughout the manuscript. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
An ownership stamp of Sultan Ahmet III library (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a. The first added folio has unclear note dated 1109 AH.
- Colophon
Colophon dated 1002 AH on f.178b.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Inconsistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs and denote sajʿ. Sometimes, the titles and poetry are separated in golden frames
- Writing material
- Material
European watermarked papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.FakihatKhulafa
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2482
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2482
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 260”.
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
1594 CE
و كان الفراغ من تعليق هذه النسخة المباركة في غرة شهر ذي القعدة من شهور سنة اثنين بعد الالف (1002 هجرية)
Language
Arabic
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