Author
Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282
Publication Date
[1334]
Subject
Muslims—Biography—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800[Browse]Islamic Empire—Biography—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800[Browse]Mustafa III Sultan of the Turks 1717-1773[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
184, i leaves: paper ; 255 x 180 (190 x 120) mm. bound to 255 x 180 mm.
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
123956712
Record ID
9951696563506421
Date
[1334]
Notes
Ms. codex.Title from illuminated title page (fol. 2a).21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink. The text is vocalized. The entries are repeated on the margins in red ink, with vocalization in black ink (see fol. 2b). Thick light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines, and pulp visible. Frame-ruled. Illuminated title-page (ʻunwān) in gold, blue, green and red on fol. 2a (mended). The beginning of the text is partly wanting due to the damage on fol. 2. Fol. 1 is a later addition on European paper, with inscriptions. Inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover.Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) on fol. 2a : Cartouche on a circular medallion, both framed in gold outlined in black, with a small medallion on the left side of the cartouche. The cartouche has the beginning of the title written in gold outlined in black in cloud bands left blank and outlined in black on a red hatched ground with arabesque of leaves left blank and outlined in black. The underlying medallion has a green, red and gold floral motif on its upper part, and the rest of the title with a decoration similar to that of the cartouche on its lower part. The small medallion on the left side of the cartouche is decorated with a floral motif in gold, green and blue. Blue outline with flecks.Collation: Paper, fol. 184, i ; 1 (later added flyleaf, European paper ; fol. 1 in the modern foliation in pencil) 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 2) 17¹⁰ 18¹⁴ + i (later added flyleaf ; same paper as fol. 1; blank) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī" (see fol. 11a).Copy completed on 29 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 734 [Jan. 7, 1334] by Aḥmad ibn Aqash al-Ḥarrānī (colophon, fol. 184b, followed by four lines of poetry).Incipit: ابو ال[...] بن محمد بن هبيرة بن سعيد بن الحسن بن احمد بن الحسنExplicit: وكانوا مقصودين من بلاد العراق والعجم وغيرها رحمهم الله اجمعين قال المصنّف ما مثاله نجز الكتاب الذي سميته وفيات الاعيان وانبا ابنا الزمان بحمد الله ومنّه وذلك في يوم الاثنين العشرين من جمادى الاخرة سنة اثنتين وسبعين وستماية بالقاهرة المحروسة يقول ... احمد بن محمد بن ابراهيم بن ابي بكر بن خلكان مولّف هذا الكتاب اننى شرعت في هذا الكتاب في التاريخ المذكور في اوّله على الصورة التى شرحتها هناك ... [184ب] ... والله يستر عيوبنا بستر كرمه الصافى ولا يكدر علينا ما منحنا من مشرع اغضآيه النمير الصافى ان شآء الله تعالى الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على خير خلقه محمد وآله وصحبه وسلامه - Brown leather for upper and lower covers, with a ten lobe central roundel, outlined by a large fillet with radiating flecks, and filled with knotwork. The inner corners of the central panel are filled with the same knotwork ; the large fillet outline creates a square with a semicircle on the two edges opposite to the borders left untooled, with three impressions of a small circular stamp in gold and a fleck on the point towards the central roundel ; one gold impression of the same stamp in each untooled semicircle. The outer border is covered by repairs. Traces of a now wanting envelope flap. Rebacked ; repairs on the border. Modern paper pastedowns cover the leather doublure. [This binding is similar to the one described in Islamic binding and bookmaking, 1981, no. 58]. - Fourth and last volume of an elegant copy of Ibn Khallikān's biographical dictionary, beginning with the biography of Ibn Hubayrah (ed. I. ʻAbbās, vol. 6, p. 313).
Getty Türü
Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—14th century[Browse]
Kongre Kütüphanesi Türü
Dictionaries[Browse]
Kaynak
Ownership statements on fol. 1a (later addition) and fol. 2a, with seal of Sulṭān Muṣṭafá III, r. 1171-87/1757-74 (see Manuel de codicologie des manuscrits en écriture arabe, p. 361, no. 121). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Referanslar
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4620
Edinme Kaynağı
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Standart Başlık
Wafayāt al-aʻyān.Juzʼ 4[Browse]وفيات الاعيان.جزء 4[Browse]
