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 الثالث; صفحات 229; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 268 ملم; عرض الصفحة 172 ملم
Volume 3; Folios 229; Number of lines per page 27; Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 172 mm
- Volume
3
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 172 mm
- Text Area
210x130 mm.
- Number of folios
229
- Binding
brown leather decorated by a frame.
Manuscript description
Ornate title page framed by a gold line and decorated in gold, red and blue ink. The title page has a top cartouche in which the title of the work is written, and a central rosette which contains the author's name. Almost clean Margins which contain few correction notes. Sometimes, the sentences in the main text are completed in the margins.
- Ownership Statement
The margin of f.1b contains waqf statement (written in 884 AH) which states that (this book is for the Waqf of Yashbak min Mahdi who made it available for scholars of the 4 Sunni madhhabs. Also, Yashbak min Mahdi ordered that this book would not leave his graveyard in the desert of Cairo, and that the book should be kept in the locker. There are two Keys of that locker, one of them should be with ''Shaykh al-turba'', and the other with the librarian, and that the locker should be only opened when both of them are in the vicinity. Finally, Yashbak stated that the librarian's son should not inherit the key from his father, but (...?).
- Colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
GAL II 39 [UAM. 724].
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Suluk
Collection and Call number
Bodleian Library, Oxford University - MS. Marsh 260
- Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
- Current classmark
MS. Marsh 260
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Copied in the 15th century CE
Language
Arabic
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