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 3; Folios 216; Number of lines per page 23; Leaf height 174 mm; Leaf width 127 mm
الجزء الثالث; 216 صفحات; عدد السطور في الصفحة 23; طول الصفحة 171 ملم;عرض الصفحة 127 ملم
- Volume
3
- Lines
23
- Dimensions
Leaf height 174 mm; Leaf width 127 mm
- Text Area
125x80 mm (framed by two red lines except the first two pages which have gold frames).
- Number of folios
216
- Binding
Crimson and brown leather with carved mandorla and two pendants.
Manuscript description
Very few correction notes. F.3a has a very elaborately executed title page in gold and blue with the catch-title written on the top cartouche (on the top the frame) and a central piece bearing the author’s name. F.3b has an ornate title-piece bears a basmala. There is Arabic writing on f.1a says ''500 followed by the Arabic letter “Qāf” which might be the price of the manuscript.
- Ownership Statement
No ownership statements. Donated by N. Hobart in 1655 (f.3b)
- 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
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
University Library, Cambridge University - Ll. 6.19
- Location
University Library, Cambridge University
- Current classmark
Ll. 6.19
- 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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