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
Volume 2; Folios 518; Number of lines per page 25; Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 150 mm
الجزء الثاني; صفحات 518; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 210 ملم; عرض الصفحة 150 ملم
- Volume
2 (out of 2)
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 150 mm
- Text Area
145x90 mm
- Number of folios
518
- Binding
Leather binding with a flap tucked under the upper cover and decorated with a turanj and full-cover decoration (frame, carved mandorla and two pendants, and carved corner pieces).
Manuscript description
The title page contains a short biography of Maqrīzī copied from the author's note in his book (Durar al-ʿUqūd al-Farīda fī Tarājim al-Aʿyān al-Mufīda). frequent commentary notes and corrections in the margins. Completion of the main text in the margins. The topics discussed in the main text are highlighted in the margins (especially about the churches of Egypt). The first folio has the date: 26 August 1874 written in Latin.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of: Muṣṭafa b. al-Shaykh ʿUmar al-ʿAllāf (f.2a) مصطفى بن الشيخ عمر العلاف
- Colophon
Colophon of Muḥammad b. Muḥammad (al-?) (al-Ṭamāy?) al-Ḥanafī in 978 AH (f.518b)
محمد بن محمد (ال؟) (الطماي؟) الحنفي في سنة 978
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Headings and names are rubricated in red). Red dots are extensively used as decoration and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Papers are not watermarked
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 1735
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 1735
- Alternate Classmark
Supplément arabe 926 bis
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
يوم الخميس سابع عشرى شوال المبارك المعظم في (...) سنة ثمان و سبعين و تسعمايه 978 هجرية
1571 CE/ 978 AH
Language
Arabic
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