Title
al-Sulūk li-Maʿrifat Duwal al-Mulūk
السلوك لمعرفة دول الملوك
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Volume 1; Folios 289 (+iii); Number of lines per page 27; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
الجزء الأول; صفحات (+3) 289; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180ملم
- Volume
1
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
215x130 mm.
- Number of folios
289 (+iii)
- Binding
Crimson leather with a full-cover themed decoration (stamped turanj and two pendants, and stamped center-pieces painted in gold with vegetal themed crimson decoration) , and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the covers are crimson leather and stamped with a turanj as well.
Manuscript description
The folio f.1a has an illuminated rectangular panel executed in gold, brown, light-blue, luminous orange, and dark blue which has an upper cartouche that contains the title of the book, and a central rosette (surrounded by four center-pieces) which contains the author’s name. There is roundel to the left of the titelpiece, and light-blue and gold decoration above it. Papers are harmed by bookworms but the main text is not affected. Margins contain: correction notes; several commentary notes (some of them are reproductions of the author’s notes), and announcements of the topics discussed in the main text. Sometimes, the sentences in the main text are completed in the margins. There is a more modern paper attached between f.132-f.133 contains basmala. The mistara is clear in the entire manuscript.
- Ownership Statement
Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
Colophon dated 16 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 883 AH. There is a note after the colophon says that this manuscript was copied from an older manuscript which was directly copied from the author’s autograph.
و كان الفراغ من كتابة هذا الجزء المبارك في يوم السبت المبارك سادس عشر شهر ربيع الأول المبارك عام ثلاث و ثمانين و ثماني ماية من الهجرة النبوية
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
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
0845Maqrizi.Suluk
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2928/1
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2928/1
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript “Tārīkh 149?” on an unnumbered folio at the beginning of the codex.
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
و كان الفراغ من كتابة هذا الجزء المبارك في يوم السبت المبارك سادس عشر شهر ربيع الأول المبارك عام ثلاث و ثمانين و ثماني ماية من الهجرة النبوية (883 هجرية)
1478 CE/ 883 AH
Language
Arabic
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