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
Volume 2; Folios 354; Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 203 mm; Leaf width 146 mm
الجزء التاني; صفحات 354; عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; طول الصفحة 203 ملم; عرض الصفحة 146 ملم
- Volume
2
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 203 mm; Leaf width 146 mm
- Text Area
155x103 mm (framed by two red lines except the first first page which has gold frames).
- Number of folios
354
- Binding
European binding
Manuscript description
F.14a has a very elaborately executed title page in gold, blue, black, and red, with the catch-title written on the top cartouche (on the top the frame) and a central piece bearing the author’s name. F.1ab has an ornate title-piece bears a basmala and decorated with a niche. F.2-f.14 contain an index written in red squares. Completion of lines in the margin, indexing of names and other contents, and several commentary and correction notes. The last three folios are not clear. There is a note on the last page that says that this is the third volume according to the author's division.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement and stamp of Muḥammad al-Sādāt al-Wafāʾī (f.14a). Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.
- Colophon
- Completeness
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
European papers (with no observable watermark).
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University Qq. 221
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Qq. 221
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
Most probably it was copied between the 16th-18th centuries (CE)
نسخت على الأرجح بين القرنين السادس عشر و الثامن عشر ميلادية
Language
Arabic
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