Title
Zubdat Kashf al-Mamālik wa-Bayān al-Ṭuruq wa-l-Masālik
زبدة كشف الممالك وبيان الطرق والمسالك
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Ẓāhirī, Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl b. Shāhīn
Physical description
Folios 139 : Number of lines per page 22 ;Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 184 mm
صفحات 139; عدد السطور بالصفحة ; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 184 ملم
- Volume
-
- Lines
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
190x120 mm.
- Number of folios
139
- Binding
Brown leather decorated by small tools (a central turanj, pendants, and a frame), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the cover is brown leather decorated by vegetal shapes.
Manuscript description
Almost clean margins which contain few correction notes. The two copies of the work in Topkapi collection (A.2990 and A.3008) end differently. The copy A.2990 ends with advice from the author, and A.3008 ends with poetry. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAṭāʾullāh al-Samarqandī? (f.1a). Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
Colophon dated 886 AH (f.139a).
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Inconsistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red (different degrees of red) and very few times rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs. Red dots to denote sajʿ.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0872Zahiri.ZubdatKashf
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) -A. 3008
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 3008
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 219”.
Genre
Administrative Manual
Geography
Historiography
Topography
Geography
Historiography
Topography
Date
1481 CE
و فرغ من كتابته في شهر رجب الفرد الحرام سنة ست و ثمانين و ثماني مائة (886 هجرية)
Language
Arabic
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