Descriptive Information

Title

.فتوح افريقية من مدينة القروان الى زاب ببلاد طانة

Transliterated Title

Futūḥ Ifrīqiyah min madīnat al-Qirwān ilá Zāb bi-bilād Ṭānah.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 590

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cv43nw878

Publisher

[1728].

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1728

Format

Manuscript

Extent

109 leaves : paper ; 176 x 135 (115 x 92) mm. bound to 181 x 142 mm.

Source Acquisition

Purchase; Sam Fogg; 2006; AM2006-93.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from rubric (fol. 1b).

16 to 17 long lines per page. Written in Maghribi script, in brown ink with some use of red and occasional green; with catchwords on the verso of each leaf, and on the recto of each leaf from fol. 7a. European paper. Modern foliation using Western numerals. There is a ḥabūs mark (fol. 109b). Good condition with water staining and some minor insect damage. Some wear on final leaves.

Copied by ʻAlī ibn Abī [Mu]ʻizz al-Rajrājī on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1140 (colophon, fol. 109b).

Incipit: قال وسميت القروان قروان ... عقبة ابن عامر رضي الله عنه نزل بافريقية

Explicit: قال الراوى لهذا الحديث هذا ما وجدنا في السفر١ من فتوح افريقية من بلاد المهدية الى بلاد زاب وفي السفر الثانيمن بلاد زاب الى اخر المغرب ... وكان النصر للمسلمين من فضل الله وبركته ... وصلى الله على نبينا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثير.

Opening rubric: (هذا تاليف فتوح افريقية من مدينة القروان الى زاب ببلاد طانة (؟

Binding Note

Modern Western type binding of pasteboards covered with paper.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islam—Africa, North—History—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Africa, North—History—647-1517—Early works to 1800

ʻUqbah ibn Nāfiʻ -683

Physical Characteristics

File Count

226

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5d9d617f-6fde-44bb-bbb0-9cd5ac727240/manifest

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