Title
ʿIqd al-Jumān fī Taʾrīkh Ahl al-Zamān
عقد الجمان في تاريخ أهل الزمان
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-ʿAynī, Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad
Physical description
صفحات 249; عدد السطور بالصفحة 31; طول الصفحة 275 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
Folios 249; Number of lines per page 31; Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Volume
Deals with the years 799-849 AH.
- Lines
31
- Dimensions
Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
- Number of folios
249
- Binding
Dark brown leather decorated by small tools (a central decorated turanj, pendants, and a frame), and an envelope flap. The inside of the cover is a paper decorated by various floral shapes, and bubbles.
Manuscript description
Extensive use of the margins which contain: correction notes, commentary notes. The folio f.1a has a short biography of the author by very unclear handwriting. The same hand continued the text in f.248b, f.249a, f.249b. Reading note:
طالعه حرف حرف بردبك ابن (عبد/عيد؟) السيفي قامن؟ الموسوي و هو مسجون؟ (بلبي في)؟ في مستهل شهر المحرم سنة ثمان و ثمانين و ثمانمايه الحمد لله.
- Ownership Statement
Waqf statement of al-madrasa al-ʿAynīya (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a. Stamp of the library of sultan Ahmet III (f.1a).
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Inconsistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh ''unclear'' script
- Ink
Black metallic ink. Extensive use of red rubrication and overlining.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Some of them are darker
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0855BadrDinCayni.CiqdJuman
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2911/a19
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2911/a19
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on an added folio before the work “Tārīkh 122 حرف ب ”.
Genre
Historiography
Universal History
Universal History
Date
Copied before 830 AH
نسخت قبل سنة 830 هجرية
Language
Arabic
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