Title
al-Mawāʿiẓ wa-l-Iʿtibār fī Dhikr al-Khiṭaṭ wa-l-Āthār
المواعظ والاعتبار بذكر الخطط والآثار
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
الجزء 1; صفحات 437 (+2); عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; طول الصفحة 225 ملم; عرض الصفحة 150 ملم
Volume 1; Folios 437 (+ii); Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 225 mm; Leaf width 150 mm
- Volume
1
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 225 mm; Leaf width 150 mm
- Text Area
100x164 mm
- Number of folios
437 (+ii)
- Binding
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central blind stamped scalloped mandorla filled with an arabesque, and outlined in gold with radiating flecks. Outer border consists of a large gilloche and fillets in gold. Silver-sparkled paper pastedowns. Marble paper fly-leaf. Spine broken and partly wanting ; lower cover detached.
Manuscript description
Information obtained from the library's online catalog. Also, the printed catalog was consulted (i.e “Fihrist al-Makhṭūṭāt al-ʿArabīya fī Jāmiʿat Brinistūn: Majmūʿat Jārīt” (Translated by: Muḥammad ʿĀayish). Volume 7, p. 175. The text is framed within two lines in red (gold on fol. f.1b-2a and 436a). Illuminated title page (f.1a). Illuminated headpiece with basmalla (f.1b). Several inscriptions, including ownership and waqf statements, and kabīkaj, on f.1a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits a fol. between fol. 429 and 430). The quires are numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Ownership Statement
Waqf in the name of al-Ḥājj Aḥmad Pāshā al-Jazzār for his Jāmiʿ, called Nūr al-Aḥmadīyah [in Acre], dated 1200 AH. [1785 or 6 CE], with waqf-seal (f. 1a). Ownership statement dated [1]151 AH, with seal on f. 1a. Inscription on fol. (i)b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942 CE.
- Colophon
Colophon in a roundel in gold outlined in black (fol. 436a).
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with use of red.
- Writing material
- Material
European watermarked papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4439 Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 38 (7/2) ; SII
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
Princeton University - Garret Collection (Yahuda Section) (3516Y)
- Location
Princeton University - Garret Collection (Yahuda Section)
- Current classmark
3516Y
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن الثامن عشر الميلادي
Most likely, it was copied in the 18th century (CE)
Language
Arabic
Online resource