Title
Rawḍat al-Manāẓir fī ʿIlm al-Awāʾil wa-l-Awākhir
روضة المناظر في علم الأوائل والأواخر
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn al-Shiḥna, Muḥibb al-Dīn Abu l-Faḍl Muḥammad b. Muḥammad
Physical description
صفحات 217; عدد السطور في الصفحة 17; طول الصفحة 167 ملم; عرض الصفحة 103 ملم
Folios 217; Number of lines per page 17; Leaf height 167 mm; Leaf width 103 mm
- Volume
-
- Lines
17
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 183 mm
- Text Area
105x55 mm.
- Number of folios
217
- Binding
Dark brown leather with central-themed of a stamped turanj and two pendants (with vegetal decoration). The title of the book is written in gold on the fore-edge flap.
Manuscript description
Many papers are cut especially the first folio where barely half of the title is exists. On the title page, there is a note says that this manuscript was part of a majmūʿ contained the history of the al-Ṭabarī and other biographical dictionaries. Margins contain: correction notes; several and consistent commentary notes and announcements of the topics discussed in the main text. Sometimes, the sentences in the main text are completed in the margins. The main text ends on f.216a. The folio f.216b has a note written by al-Usnawī about a draw of an incantation (ʿAzīma) which has to be hung above newborn babies. The folio f.217a,b contains a note about a bird that was created in the heavens before Adam. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
Colophon of Muḥammad Abū Mutqin b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ownership stamp of al-Ḥāj Muṣtafā Ṣidqī (f.2a). Unclear stamp f.2a. TKSM stamp on f.1a. Topkapi old stamp (in Arabic letters).
- Colophon
Colophon of Muḥammad Abū Mutqin b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥabīb b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Daljī al-Wafāʾī im 986 AH.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Naskh script. Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0890IbnShihna.RawdatManazir
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - H. 1602
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
H. 1602
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Geography
Historiography
Universal History
Historiography
Universal History
Date
1578 CE
و كان الفراغ من هذا التاريخ يوم الثلاثا المبارك عاشر جمادى الأولى سنة ستة و ثمانين و تسعمايه (986 هجرية)
Language
Arabic
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