Title
Zubdat Kashf al-Mamālik wa-Bayān al-Ṭuruq wa-l-Masālik
زبدة كشف الممالك وبيان الطرق والمسالك
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Ẓāhirī, Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl b. Shāhīn
Physical description
Folios 232 (+i); Number of lines per page 22 ; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
صفحات 232 (+1); عدد السطور بالصفحة 22; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
- Volume
-
- Lines
22
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
205x130 mm.
- Number of folios
232 (+i)
- Binding
Dark brown leather decorated by small tools (geometrical shapes and a frame). There is a stub in the inside of the upper cover which is a European watermarked paper.
Manuscript description
The title on f.1a says that this work is “Kashf al-Mamālik”, however, the author in his introduction says that it is “Zubdat Kashf al-Mamālik”. The wrong catch-title (i.e. “Kashf al-Mamālik”) is written on the edges of the work. The two copy of the work in TKSM collection (A.2990 and A.3008) end differently. The copy A.2990 ends with advise from the author, and A.3008 ends with poetry. This manuscript contains a visualization and tables which do not exist in the other copy in Topkapi collection (i.e TKSM A. 3008). On folio f.4a there is a visualization on a shape of a flower which shows the time difference between several events since Adam’s existence on earth, and the day of the hijra of the prophet (where the center is the hijra date, and each petal is an event). Almost clean margins which contain few correction notes and few commentary notes.
- Ownership Statement
Waqf statement of Sultan Abū Saʿīd Jaqmaq written by Muḥammad Sayyid (?) on (f.1a). The waqf statement has certain stipulations which are rather difficult to read. Unclear ownership statement of (ʿAbdullah b. Saʿīd b. ʿAbdullah?) on (f.1a). Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1b). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
Colophon dated 845 AH on (f.231b).
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs. Red dots to denote sajʿ.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0872Zahiri.ZubdatKashf
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2990
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2990
- Alternate Classmark
There is old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 201”.
Genre
Administrative Manual
Geography
Historiography
Topography
Geography
Historiography
Topography
Date
1442 CE
بتاريخ تاسع عشرين شهر الله المبارك رمضان المعظم قدره و حرمته سنة خمس و أربعين و ثمانمائة (845 هجرية)
Language
Arabic
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