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[DE-UBL] Vollers 661

Documents
Classmark
  • Vollers 661
Title
Author
Collection
Catalogue
  • Vollers, p. 208

Content

Title

↳ in Ms.
  • f. 3a:
    al-Juz' al-awwal min al-ta'rīkh al-musammá bi-Durrat al-aslāk fī dawlat al-atrāk
  • ق 3أ:
    الجزء الاول من التاريخ المسمى بدرة الاسلاك في دولة الاتراك
↳ wie in Referenz
  • Durrat al-aslāk fī dawlat al-atrāk
  • درّة الاسلاك في دولة الاتراك
↳ Versions
  • Durrat al-aslāk fī mulk al-atrāk
  • درة الأسلاك في ملك الأتراك
  • Durrat al-aslāk fī mulk al-atrāk
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Subject matter
Region
Content
  • First part of a two volume history on the Egyptian Mamluk Sultans, written in rhymed prose. The first part covers the history until 714/1314-1315.
    According to the colophon, this copy is based on the author's autograph.
Completeness
Language
Script
  • Author
↳ Name
↳ Person remark
  • ff. 3r, 198v
    [بدر الدين أبو محمد] الحسن بن عمر ابن حبيب [الشافعي]
Other copies of the works
Further copies
  • Berlin (Ahlwardt) nos. 9723-9724
    Cairo (Fuʾād Sayyid) II/nos. 235, 659
    Leiden (Voorhoeve) 72
    New Haven, Yale University (Nemoy) no. A-1324
    Paris (de Slane) nos. 1719-1721
    Paris (Vajda) 313
Editions/Literature
  • Cairo 1435/2013-2014

Description of the object

Record type
Number of volumes
  • 1
Binding
  • Red Oriental leather binding with fore-edge flap and envelope flap central ornament of the covers: mandorla with lobed perimeter, an infill of floral scrolls, Chinese cloudbands and two fleurons as pendants; corner-pieces with lobed perimeter, frame-border of a line-pattern; the outline of the ornaments is golden and has golden ornamental rays; the ornamentation of the envelope flap equals the one from the cover; doublures of the fore-edge flap and the envelope flap are of leather, doublure of the covers are of Şal-Ebrû-marbled paper; textblock has been bound incorrectly into the binding

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ Colour
↳ Watermarks
  • Crown with star and crsecent above
    crown with star and crescent above, and B below
    countermark: two, respectively three letters with rod in single outline and trefoil above: b-V, V-G-S, most frequently with the main motif on the same folio
Number of folios
  • 201; ff. 1b, 2, 199-201a: blank
Dimensions
  • 20.2 x 14.7 cm
Text area
  • 16.1 x 10.5 cm
Number of lines
  • 25
Catchwords

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • The illuminated title page is divided into three parts: in the upper and lower rectangle, the title of the work has been written in red colour with green vowels and diacritics, respectively in green colour with red vowels and diacritics; in the middle square, the authorʾs name has been written with black ink in a six-pointed star, that, in return, makes up the inside of a sexfoil; the sexfoil with its star in the middle have the same multi-coloured frame as the text area.
    ff. 3a-4a:
    text area is framed with a green, red, and gold outline
    ff. 4b-198b:
    text area is framed with a red outline

History of the object

Entstehung

Date
↳ copy
  • f. 198b: Sunday, 12 Ṣafar 1071/17 October 1660

Provenienz

Provenienz
  • 1853
  • Damascus
  • Buyer Purchaser: Sächsische Regierung
  • Seller: ʿUmar Efendī al-Rifāʿī al-Ḥamawī
  • none
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Access and usage

Collection
Project
Classmark
  • Vollers 661
↳ alternate
  • old classmark : D.C. 363
  • URN : urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-0004-6378
Editor
  • Wiesmueller
status of edit
  • First input complete
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https://qalamos.net/receive/DE15Book_manuscript_00015610
MyCoRe ID
DE15Book_manuscript_00015610 (XML view)
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