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 1 Folios 432; Number of lines per page; Leaf height 330 mm; Leaf width 220 mm
الجزء الأول; صفحات ٤٣٢; عدد السطور في الصفحة ؟; طول الصفحة 330 ملم; عرض الصفحة 220 ملم
- Volume
1
- Lines
?
- Dimensions
Leaf height 330 mm; Leaf width 220 mm
- Text Area
232x147 mm (framed by golden and black lines)
- Number of folios
432
- Binding
(Case-binding) brown leather with a flap tucked under the upper cover, and full-cover decoration (frame, two pendants, lobed center-piece, and corner pieces).
Manuscript description
The folio f.4b has a quite elaborately decorated headpiece with floral patterns executed in gold, blue, and red contains the book title. The manuscript foliation starts with the first folio which is empty, followed by an added modern paper that contains a translated index into Latin. The folios f.3b and f.4a contain an original index, and the work starts at f.4. Margins contain: several correction notes and few commentary notes. Sometimes, the sentences in the main text are completed in the margins.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of Abū Bakr the scribe of (…) who bought legally from al-Shaykh al-Ḥamīdī in 1036 AH (f.4a).
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (red, green, and gold rubrication and red overlining). Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
GAL II 39 [UAM. 671]
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
Bodleian Library, Oxford University - MS. Pococke 432
- Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
- Current classmark
MS. Pococke 432
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Most probably it was copied in the fifteenth century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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