Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Cod.arab 116

Former shelfmark

Cod.or. 103

Total pages

120, II, II' fols

Folio measures

20 x 14,5 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1468

Released place

Other dates

1493

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

Fol.120r

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Content: Hadith; Muḥammad Ibn Ismā'īl al-Buhārī: al-Gāmi' al-ṣaḥīḥ; part 37. Binding: 10 x 14,5 x 3,5 cm. Paper with Watermarks. 11 lines per page. Scribe: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Sūsī. Copied in 1468. Endowed in 1493 to Tunis? Inscriptions: fol. 001r: Endowment; taḥbīs 17. / Fol.001r: Owner's Mark. / Fol. 120r: Colophon. Dyed paper (red and yellow); watermarks: hand with closed fingers and 5 pointed star (in quarto), castle (in octavo); margins of textblock ruled. First two folio blank, fol I sticks to doublure. Last two folios blank. With catchwords. Binding: endband in red and yellow; leather turn-ins cover the doublure. Leather doublure with cut hinges > not sewn to spine. Title not on tail, but on flap; illegible. (Although there is a number on the tail). Cover: hexagonal/knot design: 1,1 x 0,9 cm. In very good conition; restricted access. "Ḥafṣid imperial style". Stylised Maġribī bookhand. Highlights in blue and magenta. Opening title illuminated in gold frame with marginal vignette, heading in ṯuluṯ script.

Entry author

Marina Santana