Title
al-Sulūk li-Maʿrifat Duwal al-Mulūk
السلوك لمعرفة دول الملوك
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
الجزء الأول; صفحات 213; عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; طول الصفحة 264 ملم; عرض الصفحة 177 ملم
Volume 1; Folios 213; Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 264 mm; Leaf width 177 mm
- Volume
1
- Lines
290
- Dimensions
Leaf height 264 mm; Leaf width 177 mm
- Text Area
190x130 mm.
- Number of folios
213
- Binding
Modern binding.
Manuscript description
Several correction and commentary notes in the margins (some of them are reproductions of the author's notes). Completion of sentences in the margins. Some of the notes in the margins are written in ''W'' or ''M'' shapes. The first folio has a very elaborately executed title page in gold, blue, and black with the title written on the top cartouche (on the top the frame) and a central rosette bearing the author’s name.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of: Ibrāhīm Azbak Bik (f.1a; f.213b). Two stamps on f.1a; f.213b probably of the aforementioned person. Ends with the events of the year 710 AH. Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and extensive use of overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
GAL II 39 [UAM. 688]. H. Kh 7240.
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Suluk
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Qq. 276
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Qq. 276
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Most likely, it was copied in the 15th century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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