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 3; Folios 356; Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 290 mm; Leaf width 195 mm
الجزء الثالث; صفحات 356; عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; طول الصفحة 29 ملم; عرض الصفحة 195 ملم
- Volume
3
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 290 mm; Leaf width 195 mm
- Text Area
210x130 mm (framed by gold and black lines in the first page, and by two red lines for the rest of the manuscript).
- Number of folios
356
- Binding
Crimson leather with a turanj
Manuscript description
Ornate title page executed in blue, gold, red, and black (rectangular frame with top cartouche containing the work's title and volume, and central medallion containing author's name). First folio has an ornate titlpiece which contains a basmala. Ornate last folio (a square with central medallion which contains the work's title). Margins contain: very few correction notes and commentary notes. Brief table of contents on an added paper at the beginning of the book.
- Ownership Statement
Scratched ownership statement f.356a. British Muesum stamps (f.356b, f.1a).
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining, and red dots around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
European papers (but no visible watermark
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
British Library - Add 7318
- Location
British Library
- Current classmark
Add 7318
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت بين القرنين السادس عشر و الثامن عشر ميلادية
Copied between the 16th-18th centuries CE
Language
Arabic
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