سيوطي، 1445-1505.

Tārīkh al-khulafāʼ

تاريخ الخلفاء

Kitāb taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ / taṣnīf ... Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī. -- 1615.

كتاب تأريخ الخلفاء / تصنيف ... جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي. -- 1615.

Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān. Ammā baʻd ḥamd Allāh alladhī waʻada fa-wafá wa-awʻada fa-ʻafā ..."

البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن. أمّا بعد حمد الله الذي وعد فوفى وأوعد فعفا ..."

Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso.

Occasional marginalia.

Islamic binding, in brown, with flap.

No. 1 of 3 titles bound together.

Colophon: "Wāfaqa al-farāgh min raqm hādhā al-taʼrīkh ... yawm al-Jumʻah, ghurrat shahr Ramaḍān ... ʻām arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf ... bi-maḥrūs madīnat Ṣanʻāʼ al-Yaman ... bi-rasm ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... bi-yad ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ..."

الخاتمة: "وافق الفراغ من رقم هذا التأريخ ... يوم الجمعة، غرّة شهر رمضان ... عام أربع وعشرين بعد الألف ... بمحروس مدينة صنعاء اليمن ... برسم ... أحمد بن محمد الخزرجي ... بيد ... محمد بن علي بن عفير [؟] ..."

Translation of the colophon: "This history book was completed ... on Friday, the beginning of the month of Ramaḍan ... of the year 1024 [of the Hijrah = 31 January 1615] ... in the protected city of Ṣanʻāʼ of Yemen ... for ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... by the hand of ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ..."

History of the caliphs.

Preceded by 3 leaves of notes.

Copied in Sanʻa, Yemen, in A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615).

Taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ

تأريخ الخلفاء

Brockelmann, II, 157; S II, p. 196

Hitti, 602

Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichniss, 9714-15

Sutūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʼ. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Caliphs > History > Early works to 1800.

Islamic Empire > Kings and rulers > History > Early works to 1800.