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
4 Volumes 970 Pages (not foliated); Number of lines per page 41; Leaf height 330 mm; Leaf width 240 mm
أربع أجزاء; صفحات 970; عدد السطور في الصفحة 41; طول الصفحة 330 ملم; عرض الصفحة 240 ملم
- Volume
1-4
- Lines
41
- Dimensions
Leaf height 330 mm; Leaf width 240 mm
- Text Area
233x147 mm (the first and last couple of pages are framed by gold and blue lines).
- Number of folios
970 Pages (not foliated)
- Binding
Manuscript description
Frequent comment notes in the margins but not extensive. The edges of the papers are slightly cut. Ornate title page in which the title is written in red within a gold and blue cartouche. Pages 722-723 has information about the death dates of some sultans starting from al-Muʾayyad Shaykh till Qanṣūh al-Ghawrī (and there is a not in the margins which says that it is not part of the original work since it contains information about events happened after the death of the author).
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. The name ''Hassan Pasha'' is written on the first page.
- Colophon
Colophon of ''Ḥijāzī b. Yaḥyā al-Jīzī''. The date of the copying the book is rather not specified in the manuscript itself. However, it is mentioned in Witkam's Catalogue.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red and gold rubrications, and red dots to denote poetry.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
The color of the papers is darker around the writing surface.
- Bibliographic Info
GAL, GII, 39.
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
Leiden University Or. 276
- Location
Leiden University
- Current classmark
Or. 276
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Discription of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت في سنة 906 هجرية
1500 CE/ 906 ِAH
Language
Arabic
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