Bidāyah wa-al-nihāyah. Selections

Title:

Bidāyah wa-al-nihāyah. Selections

Creator:

Ibn Kathīr, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUmar, approximately 1301-1373

Date:

1484

Description:

Abstract: Two volumes of the chronicles of Ibn Kathīr (see title in red on the first fol. of vol. 2, reading: "al-mujallad al-sādis "dis" crossed out biʻ min sanah 278 ilá sanah 465" ; however, on fol. 2a of the same volume, title reading: "al-mujallad al-ḥādī ʻashar crossed out in purple, with correction reading: "al-sābiʻ" min Tārīkh Ibn Kathīr"). The first volume begins with part of the year 96 H. 714-715 and closes with the year 241 H. 855-856. The second volume begins with the year 278 891-892 and closes with the year 465 H. 1072-1073. The first volume is incomplete at the beginning. At the end of vol. 2, on fol. 204b-205b, inscriptions and one excerpt from ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by al-Qazwīnī.Binding note: Both volume have a similar modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from notes on vol. 2, fol. 2a.Vol. 1 written in medium small casual naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, with 27 lines per page (written surface: 203 x 130 mm.), on light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. The paper has been frame-ruled. The quires of vol. 1 are numbered using Arabic ordinals and numerals, starting with "Rābiʻ 4" on fol. 18a. Some leaves are missing, e.g. central bifolio of the fifth quire (between fol. 31 and 32), two bifol. in the sixth quire, etc. Worm-eaten. Fragile.Vol. 2 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and punctuation, with 25 lines per page (written surface: 192 x 140 mm.), on light cream paper with laid lines, chain lines, and pulp visible. The paper has been frame-ruled. Fol. 2-15a are later replacements on glazed European paper (corners wanting on fol. 2-7; fol. 15 pasted on the recto of an original leaf). On fol. 15b begins the original text, with a basmalah. On fol. 1a, note quoting al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī on seven --- in Babylon.Copy of vol. 1 completed in the beginning (mustahall) of Shawwāl 889 Oct. 1484 (colophon, fol. 221b).Beginning vol. 1 as extant:فاخبرني به والا ضربت الذي فيه عيناك فقال نعم يا امير المومنين كنت رجلا جمالا فبينما انا ... 2أ ... خلافة سليمان بن عبد الملكExplicit vol. 1: بكافرين ويشير الى احمد بن حنبل واصحابه والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلمBeginning vol. 2: ... طلع نجم ذو وجه ثم صار الوجه ذو ايه ... 15ب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ الامام ... عماد الدين اسمعيل بن كثير البصروي الشافع ... قال اجمع عقلا كل امة على ان من لم يجر مع القدرExplicit vol. 2: وتوفى فى سلخ ذى القعدة من هذه السنة وقد جاوز سبعين سنة وكان يوم جنازته يوما مشهودا ورويت له منامات صالحة حسنة رحمه الله وسامحه ورحمنا وسامحنا انه قريب مجيب رحيم ودود والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم يتلوه سنة ست وستين واربعماية

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Islamic Empire—History—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Seal on vol. 1, fol. 9a. Reading statement on vol. 2, fol. 1a (repeated on fol. 205b), signed Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāʼūd known as al-Mashmūshī, dated 29 Jumādá al-Ākhir sanah ---? on fol. 1a, and 27 Jumādá al-Ūlá sanah ---?, on fol. 205b. Reading statement on vol. 2, fol. 2a, signed Aḥmad ʻAbd Allāh al-Sarīf al-ARKWī(?). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Extent:

2 v. (221, 205) leaves: paper ; 255 x 170 mm.

Publisher:

1484?

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

ark:/88435/dcsn00b755n

Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Middle East Manuscripts
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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