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 207 (+iii); Number of lines per page 19; Leaf height 212 mm; Leaf width 161 mm
صفحات (+3) 207; عدد السطور في الصفحة 19; طول الصفحة 212 ملم; عرض الصفحة 161 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
19
- Dimensions
Leaf height 212 mm; Leaf width 161 mm
- Text Area
130x105 mm (f.1b and f.2a are framed by gold and blue lines).
- Number of folios
207 (+iii)
- Binding
Dark brown leather decorated by small tools (a central turanj, pendants, and a frame), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the cover is brown leather decorated by vegetal shapes.
Manuscript description
Margins contain: few correction notes. Completion of sentences in the margins. 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 empty rosette (surrounded by four small medallions and vegetal decoration on blue background. There is an original index from f.1b-f.6b. There is a note which says that this manuscript has 19 Kurras (f.ia). The copyist kept the visualization of the Uygur letters on f.195b (while he left part of 195a empty as well), while he omitted the chessboard visualization (f.189a). The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Ḥanafī?. Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
Colophon dated 850 AH on f.207b. There is a note next to the colophon which says that the author of the book has reviewed this manuscript, therefore it is a correct one (f.207b).
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs and to denote sajʿ.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Some folios are tinted in light brown
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0854IbnCarabshah.CajaibMaqdur
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 3050
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 3050
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 260”.
Genre
Historiography
Individual Biography
Individual Biography
Date
1446 CE
و كان الفراغ من نسخه في سلخ؟ شعبان المكرم سنة خمسين و ثمانمائة (850 هجرية)
Language
Arabic
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