A history of Egypt from remote times until the time of Sulaymān the Magnificent, who reigned 926-64 [1520-1566].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. On a folio after the colophon are lists of the Ottoman sultans from ʻUthmān Khān Ghāzī 699 [1299] to Salīm Khān [III] 1203 [1789] and of the governors of Egypt from Khayr Bey Pāshā 922 [1516] to Sulaymān Pāshā 943 [1536/7] with their reigns. First and last folios have some writing and calculations.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 75 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (shield, roman-alphabet letters "V O" or "O A", sun) ; MS in fair condition, upper cover detached from binding.
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الاول بلا بداية في ازليته
Colophon: تم وکمل بحمد الله وعونه
Binding note
Type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers and flap.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 626.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Kitāb ʻllm al-tārīkh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl
كتاب علم التاريخ على التمام والكمال
OCLC
1291216001
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