Title
Kitāb al-Sukkardān wa-ʻajāʼib al-buldān / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-ʻUmda Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ibn Abī Ḥajalah al-Tilimsānī : manuscript, 1567
كتاب السكردان وعجائب البلدان / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة العمدة شهاب الدين ابو العباس احمد الشهير بان ابي حجلة التلمساني : مخطوطة، 1567
Sukkardān wa-ʻajāʼib al-buldān
سكردان وعجائب البلدان
Sukkardān al-sulṭān
سكردان السلطان
Name/Creator
Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1325-1374 or 5, creator
ابن أبي حجلة, أحمد بن يحيى, 1325-1374 or 5, creator
HOLLIS IDDigital Object
[Provides access to page images of entire work]
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:3120085
LocationNetworked Resource
Houghton
Language
Arabic
Description
111 leaves, bound ; 20 cm.
Form/Genretext
print
Early work to 1800
Subject
Egypt -- History -- Miscellanea -- Early work to 1800
;
Mamelukes -- Early work to 1800
Category
manuscript
Note
Title from fol. 1r.
الحمد لله الذي انطق الطير بحكمته واجرى البحار السبعة بقدرته ... وجعل مولانا السلطان سابع ... :Incipit
Written in a naskh hand in black ink, rubricated in red, 19 lines per page, with collation notes. There are catchwords on the verso of each leaf.
The ms is stained throughout ; text is slightly damaged on some pages.
According to colophon, copy completed on 14 Rajab 974 AH [January 24, 1567 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān (?) ...
Foliated until fol. 63. Missing leave(s) after fol. 63.
Bound with: Ṭabaqāt al-aqṭāb fī dhikr awliyāʼ Allāh taʻālá wa-aqwālihim wa-aḥwālihim ilá intihāʼ ājālihim / Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī (ff. 1r-169r).
MS Arab 357. Houghton Library, Harvard University.