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 337; عدد السطور في الصفحة 37; طول الصفحة 288 ملم; عرض الصفحة 183 ملم
Volume 1; Folios 332; Number of lines per page 37; Leaf height 288 mm; Leaf width 183 mm
- Volume
1
- Lines
37
- Dimensions
Leaf height 288 mm; Leaf width 183 mm
- Text Area
230x125 mm [the first two pages framed into golden and black lines).
- Number of folios
332
- Binding
Brown cardboar with engraved purble turanj, and a flap tucked under the upper cover.
Manuscript description
Ornate headpiece excuted in gold and blue contains the book's title and basmala. Some papers are stained. Margins contain: several correction notes, several commentary notes throughout the manuscript, announcements of the topics discussed in the main text. There is a long note on f.40a about the Ottoman Sultans: Sulaymān, Muḥammad II (and his sons the Sultans Bayazīd and Selīm). There is a long note on f.1a about the death of Muḥammad, the king of Maghrib (Sunday 25th of Rajab 1304), and that the news about his death reached them 11 days after his death date (and someone hid this news for two days). The note continues by saying that in the same year the Khalifa of the Wast and West ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd has died (raḥimahu allāh) and three of the Christian kings died as well (laʿanahum allāh). There is an invocation against bookworms f.2a, f.1a
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statements of: Manṣūr al-Inklīzī (the English?) and his stamp f.1a); Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad (who is known as) Ibn al-ʿInnābī [who bought it] with the price of 29 Riyāl Darāhim Ṣighār Jazāʾirriya in Jumādā al-ʾŪlā 1229 AH; stamp of (Yāsīn b. Muḥammad?) in 991AH; unclear note and stamp of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm? In 1235 AH. . Note written on added paper at the end of the book says: ''Bought of (queclitch?) 11 Oct 1856.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with (very paled red/orange/purple rubrication).
- Writing material
- Material
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
British Library - Add 21582
- Location
British Library
- Current classmark
Add 21582
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر أو السادس عشر الميلادي
Most probably, it was copied in the 15th or the 16th centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
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