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
Folios 264; Number of lines per page 19; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
صفحات 264; عدد السطور بالصفحة 19; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
- Volume
Discusses the period 96-126 AH.
- Lines
19
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
- Number of folios
264
- Binding
light brown (full-cover decoration themed) executed by small tools (decorated turanj, pendants, frame decorated with vegetal shapes, and corner-pieces painted in gold, decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover, and decorated fore-edge cover. The inside of the cover is thin brown leather decorated by vegetal shapes, and part of it is glued to the first and last flyleaves by glued white papers.
Manuscript description
A digital copy was examined. Sometimes poetry verses are written vertically (i.e. half of the verse in each line) and the copyist placed red dots/commas before and after them. Almost clean margins which contain: few correction notes. Completion of the sentences in the margins.
- Ownership Statement
Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet (f.1a) . TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining (sometimes the titles and keywords are rubricated in blue, light green, or brown). Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0855BadrDinCayni.CiqdJuman
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2911/c13
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2911/c13
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 122 ”.
Genre
Historiography
Universal History
Universal History
Date
Most probably, it was copied in the 15th or the 16th centuries (CE)
نسخ على الأغلب في القرن القرن الخامس عشر أو السادس عشر الميلادي
Language
Arabic
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