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 420 (+1); عدد السطور في الصفحة 31; طول الصفحة 275 ملم; عرض الصفحة 175 ملم
Volume 1; Folios 420 (+i); Number of lines per page 31; Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 175 mm
- Volume
1 (Covers the period 567-702 AH).
- Lines
31
- Dimensions
Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 175 mm
- Text Area
195x120 mm.
- Number of folios
420 (+i)
- Binding
Modern binding
Manuscript description
The edges of the papers are slightly cut. Some papers are harmed by bookworms but still legible. Almost no correction notes. Some commentary notes only in the first two folios. Sometimes, the sentences of the main text are completed in the margins. The first folio has many linguistic notes on its margins and the words ''al-Muṣbāḥ al-Munīr'' are written beneath them. There is a draw of the four original directions on the margins of f.1a. The firs folios (which is not counted on the total number of the book's folios), there are some notes of whether it is legally acceptable for women to be judges and/or Sultans and the unknown person concludes the it is permissible citing the example of Shajar al-Durr who ruled Egypt from May-July 1250 CE. There is also Latin Writings on the same folio. The name of the book is written on the sides of the paper. There is a reading note (perhaps written by Abū Bakr says:
“رأيت كتابا آخر في التاريخ المسمى (...) السلوك في معرفة الملوك
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Shaʿbān (f.1a); ʿAlī al-Riḍā (f.1a); Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. Sinān (f.1a); one unclear stamp of (ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Saʿīd?) f.1a; two stamps of Abū Bakr (?) which has Ottoman or Persian prayer on them (f.1a). A note states: ''Collated 1.8.69'' at the end of the book.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Red dots at the end of some sentences and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
GAL II 39 [UAM. 751, with corrig. Nicoll p. 594].
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Suluk
Collection and Call number
Bodleian Library, Oxford University - MS. Marsh 287
- Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
- Current classmark
MS. Marsh 287
- 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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