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 الأول صفحات ٤٧٧ عدد السطور في الصفحة ٢٥ عرض الصفحة ١٥سم، طول الصفحة ٢١ سم
Volume 1; Folios 477; Number of lines per page 25; Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 150 mm
- Volume
1
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 210 mm; Leaf width 150 mm
- Text Area
145x90 mm.
- Number of folios
477
- Binding
Leather with a flap tucked under the upper cover, and full-cover decoration (frame, carved crimson mandorla and two pendants, and carved corner piece
Manuscript description
Some notes and corrections in the margins. Completion of the text in the margins. The topics discussed in the main text are highlighted in the margins. Ornate frontispiece which contains the author's name and the work's title. The first folio has the date: 26 August 1874 written in Latin.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Muṣṭafa b. al-Shaykh ʿUmar al-ʿAllāf; ʿAlī b. Ṭūghān (f. 477) (who mentions that he bought it from Sulaymān b. Aḥmad al-Junayd in the year 983 AH, and cites the witnesses of the sale transaction: Muḥammad al-Jāwīsh; his Shaykh Manṣūr b. (?)); his Shaykh Ibrāhīm; and unclear name) (f.477b)
- Colophon
Muḥammad (al-Ṭamādī?) al-Ḥanafī in 987 AH (f.477b)
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink (Headings and names are rubricated in red)
- Writing material
- Material
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz.
Collection and Call number
National Library of France (BNF) ( Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF) - Arabe 1734
- Location
National Library of France (BNF)
- Current classmark
Arabe 1734
- Alternate Classmark
Supplément arabe 926
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
987 هجرية
1570 CE / 987 AH
Language
Arabic
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