Title
al-Mawāʿiẓ wa-l-Iʿtibār fī Dhikr al-Khiṭaṭ wa-l-Āthār
المواعظ والاعتبار بذكر الخطط والآثار
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
الجزء الثاني; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; صفحات (+3) 483; طول الصفحة 255 ملم; عرض الصفحة 138 ملم
Volume 2; Folios 483 (+iii); Number of lines per page 27 ; Leaf height 255 mm; Leaf width 138 mm
- Volume
2
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
- Text Area
142x86 mm (the folios f.1b-f.2aare framed by golden and blue lines, while the rest are framed by red lines).
- Number of folios
483 (+iii)
- Binding
Crimson leather with full-cover stamped decoration (decorated turanj, pendants, frame, and corner-pieces painted in gold and decorated by crimson vegetal shapes), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the two covers are black papers.
Manuscript description
No title page. The Folio f.1b has a well-decorated ʿUnwan which contains a basmala. Almost clean margins which have: few correction and commentary notes, and highlighting the topics discussed in the main text. The copyist included the following topics in the main text of the book (al-Khabar ʿan al-Ifranj, Story of the prince of Constantinople, Dhikr al-Imam al-Zaydi). Other copyists who reproduced this information usually wrote them down after the end of the book and stressed that those side notes were written by al-Maqrizi.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Rubrication in red. Inverted commas and red dots around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
glazed and thin (oriental?) papers.
- Color
Dark brown
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2945
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2945
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 156”.
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
Most probably it was copied in the 16th century (CE)
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن السادس عشر الميلادي
Language
Arabic
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