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
Folios 347; Number of lines per page 35; Leaf height 267 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
صفحات 347; عدد السطور في الصفحة 35; طول الصفحة 267 ملم;عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
- Volume
Three parts combined together in the same cover. (Part 1 Starts with: Bāb al-Zumurrud. Part 2: starts with Dhikr Ḥārit Zuwayla. Part 3 starts with: Dhikr al-Jazāʾir and ends with Dukhul Qibṭ al-Nuṣrāniya)
- Lines
35
- Dimensions
Leaf height 267 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
(205-113)x(113-120) mm (part 1 is framed by a red line).
- Number of folios
347
- Binding
Quiet old cardboard binding decorated with one (unclear) repeated word and an engraved turanj
Manuscript description
Three parts combined together on the same cover. Sentences are completed in the margins. Red dots to mark poetry hemistichs. Few corrections and there are some comment notes in part 2. Missing folios at the beginning and the end of the manuscript. The three parts could have been written in a close time period. At the end of the second part, there are many notes (almost 4 pages) which the copyist say that he found it written by al-Maqrīzī's handwriting about: 1- The Tanūkhīs of Lebanon and Umarā' al-Gharb 2- Akhbār al-Yaman 3-Akhbār Muḥammad b. Ṭughluq Shāh (3 pages).
- Ownership Statement
Zakiyya seal f.1.
- Colophon
Colophon at the end of part 1 of Ismāʿīl Muḥammad b. Abi-l-Fatḥ al-Dūnshawī in 977 AH.
- Completeness
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Headings and names are rubricated in red)
- Writing material
- Material
The papers of part 1 are watermarked (crown+AGFC).
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt) - Zakīya 899 ( دار الكتب و الوثائق القومية المصرية - زكية 899)
- Location
Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmīya (Egypt)
- Current classmark
Zakīya 899
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت في 3 صفر 977 هجرية
1569 CE/ 3 Ṣafar 977 AH
Language
Arabic
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