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Codex Peregrinus · Hisham

Codex PeregrinusTabula

The writings

Tabula فهرس

four folios, gathered by year, newest first.

Rubrics:

MMXXVI2026 ad١٤٤٧–١٤٤٨ هـ

  1. Writing Your First Foliofolio fol. ivA practical guide to adding articles to this codex — where the files live, what goes in the frontmatter, and how footnotes turn into marginalia.

    18 September 2026·notes·a 4-minute reading

  2. في مديح الحبرfolio fol. iiiتأمّلٌ قصير في الحبر والصبر، وفي النسّاخ، وفي مكتبةٍ غابت عن طرابلس ولم يغب ذكرها.

    7 August 2026·تأملات·a 2-minute reading

  3. On Stipplingfolio fol. iiHow the frontispiece behind these pages was drawn — a painting, some ninety thousand dots, and an old idea about where each one should sit.

    2 June 2026·craft,code·a 4-minute reading

  4. The Citadel on Mount Pilgrimfolio fol. iA fortress raised to starve a city of scholars, a count who died in its shadow, and a name that outlived them all — the twelfth-century story behind the hill above Tripoli.

    14 March 2026·history,tripoli·a 6-minute reading

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ExplicitHere ends the codex of Hisham, written beneath Mons Peregrinus.

Hisham · Anno MMXXVI · ١٤٤٨ هـ

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The frontispiece imagines the Citadel of Raymond of Saint-Gilles upon Mons Peregrinus — Qalʿat Ṣanjīl,قلعة صنجيل — as it may have stood c. 1109. The fortress standing today is largely Mamluk and Ottoman work; this is an interpretation, drawn in ~88,000 dots by weighted Voronoi stippling.