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 356; 27 عدد السطور في الصفحة; طول الصفحة 204 ملم; عرض الصفحة 143 ملم
Volume 1; Folios 356; Number of lines per page 27; Leaf height 204 mm; Leaf width 143 mm
- Volume
1
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 204 mm; Leaf width 143 mm
- Text Area
142x90 mm (framed by two red lines except for the first page which has gold frames)
- Number of folios
356
- Binding
Modern binding
Manuscript description
Several commentary and correction notes (but not very extensive), and indexing of names and other contents (in few instances). F.5a has a non-completed title page which probably was meant to decorated (like volume 2 i.e. qq. 221), but it ended up being a basic gold frame and central piece. Catch-title (says the first third of the work) written on the top cartouche (on the top the frame) and a central piece bearing the author’s name. F.5b has an ornate title-piece bears a basmala and decorated with a niche. F.1a-f.3a contain an index written in red. There are two comments on (f.134a) by two different persons. The first person heavily criticizes the Sultan Al-Nāṣir Muḥammad who resumed the celebration of the Coptic festival ʿĪd al-Shahīd (in 738 AH according to al-Maqrīzī), and also criticizes the Copts who celebrate it during his lifetime. The second comment defends Al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and says that historians have never reported that he professed the Coptic beliefs and that it makes no sense to call Al-Nāṣir Muḥammad Kāfir for making such mistake. There is a note last page that says this is the first third of the book according to the author's division.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of Muḥammad al-Sādāt al-Wafāʾī (f.14a); and his two stamp (f.5a). Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- 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. 222
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Qq. 222
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Most probably it was copied in the fifteenth century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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