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
Folios 228 (+ii); Number of lines per page 25 ;Leaf height 272 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
صفحات 228 (+2); عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 272 ملم; عرض الصفحة 176 ملم
- Volume
-
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 272 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
185x120 mm (Framed by gold and blue lines in folios f.1b, f.2a, f.150b, and by two red lines for the rest of the manuscript).
- Number of folios
228 (+ii)
- Binding
Brown leather with full-cover decoration executed by small tools (central turanj decorated by vegetal shapes), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The upper cover is loose.
Manuscript description
The folio f.1a has a well-illuminated titelpiece executed in gold, green, luminous orange, and blue which has an upper cartouche that contains the catch-title of the book, a lower cartouche which has the rest of the title, and a central medallion which contains the author’s name. The Kurras number is written on the top left side of the recto side (quinion gathering), and the total number is written on a flyleaf at the beginning of the work (i.e. 23). Clean margins. Catch-title is written on the edges of the manuscript. The folio f.150b has a finispieces which consists of a lower cartouche with an ex-libris which reads
“ برسم المصونة المحجبة الكبرى الرضية الادر الخاصبكية (الخاصكية؟) الأشرفية جهة المقام الشريف السلطاني الملكي؟ الاشرفي النصر قايتباي أدام الله عزهما.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Written for the library of of a certain woman from the household of the sultan al-Ashraf abū al-Naṣr Qaytbāy who has been described as: “ al-maṣūna al-muḥajjaba al-Kubrā al-raḍīya al-Khāṣbakīya (al- Khāṣṣakīya?) al-Ashrafīya (jihat al-maqām al-sharīf al-sulṭānī al-malakī al-ashrafī) (f.150b).Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1b). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining (sometimes in blue or gold as well), and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs and three red dots to denote the end of sentences.
- 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. 3038
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 3038
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 249”.
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Most likely, it was copied in the 15th century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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