Title
al-Khabar ʿan al-Bashar
الخبر عن البشر
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Volume 6; Folios 242 (+vi); Number of lines per page 27 ; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
الجزء السادس; صفحات (+6) 242; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 185 ملم
- Volume
6
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
- Text Area
205x130 mm (the folios f.1b, f.2a, f.242b are framed by golden and blue lines).
- Number of folios
242 (+vi)
- Binding
Brown leather with full-cover decoration executed with small tool (decorated turanj, pendants, frame, and corner-pieces in the shape of flowers painted in gold) and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside covers are brown soft leather decorated by geometrical shapes. The doublure is attached to the first folio of the codex. The title is written on the spine in gold.
Manuscript description
The mistara is clear throughout the manuscript. Margins contain: very few commentary and correction notes, and (sometimes) highlighting the topics discussed throughout the manuscript. The folio f.1a has well-illuminated titelpiece executed in gold, green, luminous orange, red, and blue (mix of vegetal and geometric shapes) which has the title of the book written on the upper part, and the author’s name written on the lower part. There is an invocation against bookworms on two unnumbered folios at the beginning of the codex The catch-title is written on the edges of the manuscript.
- Ownership Statement
An ownership stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a. Tughra of Sultan Sulaymān on f.1a, and f.242b. Ownership statement of Muḥammad Aḥmad ʾĪnāl al-ʿAlāʾī al-Dawadār on f.1a. There is also a central rosette in it which contains the following ex-libris inscription “برسم خزانة الجناب العالي المحبي محب الدين محمد بن الجناب العالي المرحوم الشهابي أحمد بن اينال العلاي الداوادار الحنفي”. The folio f.242b also has an ex-libris inscription which reads “ كتب برسم الجناب العالي الناصري سيدي محمد بن الجناب المرحوم الشهابي سيدي أحمد بن المرحوم السيفي اينال العلاي الداوادار الحنفي عامله الله و والديه و المسلمين بلطفه الخفي انه على ذلك قدير و بالاجابة جدير
- Colophon
Colophon of ʿĪsā (al-Marḥūmī?) dated 29 Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 897 AH (f.242b)
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords.
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Naskh script. Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.KhabarCanBashar
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Istanbul Turkey) A. 2926/6 - مكتبة طوب قابي سراي - السلطان أحمد (اسطنبول تركيا) أ.2926/6
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2926/6
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript “Tārīkh 147?” at the beginning of the codex
Genre
Genealogy
Historiography
Universal History
Historiography
Universal History
Date
و كان الفراغ من تكملته في يوم الجمعة المبارك التاسع و العشرين من شهر ربيع الآخر سنة سبع و تسعين و ثماني ماية (897 هجرية)
1492 CE/ 879 AH
Language
Arabic
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