Title
Zubdat Kashf al-Mamālik wa-Bayān al-Ṭuruq wa-l-Masālik
زبدة كشف الممالك وبيان الطرق والمسالك
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Ẓāhirī, Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl b. Shāhīn
Physical description
Folios 120; Number of lines per page 15; Leaf height 214 mm; Leaf width 145 mm
صفحات 120; عدد السطور في الصفحة 15; طول الصفحة 214 ملم; عرض الصفحة 145 ملم
- Volume
-
- Lines
15
- Dimensions
Leaf height 214 mm; Leaf width 145 mm
- Text Area
145x105 mm
- Number of folios
120
- Binding
Brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible) for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central roundel with a geometrical star-shaped motif and an elaborate outer frame made of fillets and running patterns. Disbound.
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 1, p. 195. Title from title page (f.1a). The same title appears in the preamble (f.2b, l. 10). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Table of contents in the preamble, fol. 2b-4b.
- Ownership Statement
Three ownership statements on f.(i) a, in the name of al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-ʿAlīm? Afandī, and Muṣṭafā b. al-Ḥājj Abī Bakr. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina). (Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.)
- Colophon
Copy completed on 12 Shawwāl 917 (colophon, f.120a).
- Completeness
Some leaves are missing (see between fol. 12 and 13 and between fol. 55 and 56).
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh
- Ink
Black ink with the use of red.
- Writing material
- Material
European glazed paper with watermark.
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 752 Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 135 (6/1) Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 165 (6/1)
Open ITI
0872Zahiri.ZubdatKashf
Collection and Call number
Princeton University - Garret Collection (263H)
- Location
Princeton University - Garret Collection
- Current classmark
263H
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Administrative Manual
Geography
Historiography
Topography
Geography
Historiography
Topography
Date
Copied on the 7th of Shawwāl 917 AH/ 1511 CE
نسخت في 7 شوال سنة 917 هجرية
Language
Arabic
Online resource