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 284; Number of lines per page 24; Leaf height 212 mm; Leaf width 153 mm
الجزء الثاني; صفحات 284; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 212 مم; عرض الصفحة 153 مم
- Volume
2
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 212 mm; Leaf width 153 mm
- Text Area
142x100 mm (framed by two red lines except for the first and last pages which have gold frames).
- Number of folios
284
- Binding
(case-binding) cardboard with a flap tucked under the upper cover, and full-cover decoration (frame, carved crimson mandorla and two pendants, and carved corner pieces).
Manuscript description
Completion of lines in the margin. Very few correction notes and indexing of names and contents in the margins. The first folio has a very elaborately executed title page in gold, gray, and red, with the catch-title written on the top cartouche on the top of the frame and a central rosette bearing the author’s name. The last folio contains an ornate frame executed in red and gold with a rosette contains the work's title, volume, and the first topic in the following volume. F.1b has ornate title-piece bears a basmala. The folios are not numbered beyond f.180. The book starts on f.4b.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Donated by N. Hobart in 1655 (f.3b).
- 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, 42 [UAM. 773].
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University Dd. 11. 8.
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Dd. 11. 8.
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر أو السادس عشر الميلادي
Most likely, it was copied in the 15th or the 16th centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
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