Title
Mawrid al-Laṭāfa fī man Waliya al-Salṭana wa-l-Khilāfa
مورد اللطافة في ذكر من ولي الخلافة
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Taghrībirdī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abu l-Maḥāsin Yūsuf al-Atābkī
Physical description
صفحات 243; عدد السطور في الصفحة 15; طول الصفحة 182 ملم; عرض الصفحة 134 ملم
Folios 243; Number of lines per page 15; Leaf height 182 mm; Leaf width 134 mm
- Volume
-
- Lines
15
- Dimensions
Leaf height 182 mm; Leaf width 134 mm
- Text Area
125x90 mm.
- Number of folios
243
- Binding
Brown leather with central motif decoration of small Shamash. The inside of the covers are brown leather as well, and there are two pink papers glued between the covers and the first and last folios of the codex.
Manuscript description
The title is written in red in descending triangle shape (f.1a). Papers are harmed by bookworms but they are still mostly legibly. Quire gathering: mostly quinion. Margins contain: Mostly correction notes. Many folios or part of them (e.g. half of the folios f.212b, f.216b, and f.120b and the entire folios f.213a, f.120b, and f.121a-f.122a are empty). In f.120a the copyist notes before the blank part “in here, the words of al-Jamālī Yūsuf has ended”. Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1b). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Inconsistent use of catchwords (some are written by different hand in red).
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs and red dots to denote the end of sentences (in the first 2 folios).
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0874IbnTaghribirdi.MawridLatafa
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 3035
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 3035
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 246”.
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Most probably, it was copied in the 15th century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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