Title
ʿAjāʾib al-Maqdūr fī Nawāʾib Tīmūr
عجائب المقدور في نوائب تيمور
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn ʿArabshāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
Physical description
Folios 204 (+iii); Number of lines per page 17; Leaf height 278 mm; Leaf width 191 mm
صفحات (+3) 204; عدد السطور في الصفحة 17; طول الصفحة 278 ملم; عرض الصفحة 191 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
17
- Dimensions
Leaf height 278 mm; Leaf width 191 mm
- Text Area
164x108 mm
- Number of folios
204 (+iii)
- Binding
: Dark brown leather with full-cover decoration by small tools (decorated with a central turanj, pendants, and a frame with four corner-pieces), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover.
Manuscript description
Margins contain: few correction notes. Completion of sentences in the margins. Consistent use of catchwords. The folio f.1a has an illuminated rectangular panel executed in gold, red, brown, and blue which has an upper cartouche that contains the title of the book, and a central rosette (surrounded by four small medallions) which contains the author's name. The mistara is clear throughout the manuscript. The folio f.1a has the words “its price is 100” and two titles: “Kitāb Dawāhī Tīmūr bi-l-ʿArabīya fī al-Tārīkh” and “Nawāʾib Tīmūr”. There is an original index from f.1b-f.6b. The copyist kept the visualization of the Uygur letters (f.194 a,b) and the chess board (f.189b) which are omitted in many other copies of the manuscript. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work. Beneath the rosette, there is a statement which has been added by black ink says
“برسم الخزانة السعيدة العالية المولوية اليدية السندية؟ المخدومية القاضوية الجمالية ناظر الخواص الشريفة بالديار المصرية وساير الممالك (التركية؟؟) عظم لسانه و صانه عما شانه''.
- Ownership Statement
TKSM stamp on f.1a. There is a tughra of perhaps Sultan Selim on f.1a. Two unclear tughras on f.1a and f.204b.
- Colophon
Colophon of Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī, dated 852 AH (f.204b)
وقد تم الفراغ من تنميقه بعون الله و توفيقه في يوم السبت سابع شهر ذي الحجة سنة اثنين و خمسين و ثمانمائة على يد تراب اقدام الفقرا اسماعيل بن عبد الرحمن الاصفهاني
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black metallic ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs and to denote sajʿ.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III A. 3049
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 3049
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
1449 CE
تم الفراغ من تنميقه بعون الله و توفيقه في يوم السبت سابع شهر ذي الحجة سنة اثنين و خمسين و ثمانمائة (852 هجرية)
Language
Arabic
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