Title
Mawrid al-Laṭāfa fī man Waliya al-Salṭana wa-l-Khilāfa
مورد اللطافة في ذكر من ولي الخلافة
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
Ibn Taghrībirdī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abu l-Maḥāsin Yūsuf al-Atābkī
Physical description
صفحات 84; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
Folios 84; Number of lines per page 25; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Volume
-
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
220x120 mm.
- Number of folios
84
- Binding
Brown leather with full-cover decoration executed by small tools (decorated central turanj and a frame), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the cover is brown paper, and there are grey papers glued between the covers and the first and last folios of the codex (which are European watermarked grey papers)
Manuscript description
Papers are harmed by bookworms but still clearly legible. Margins contain: correction notes, and announcement of the topics discussed in the main text. The copyist frequently leaves (partly)-empty folios. Completion of the main text in the margins. Some lines in the main text are crossed over by black ink. There are two folios before the text which contain different texts. On one of them, there is a reading note of Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. Maḥmūd al-ʿAynī (but not sure if it is a reading note of the main book or the added texts). Sometimes the main titles are written in gold boxes. The folio f.1a has a quite uniquely illuminated titelpiece executed in luminous gold/orange and blue which has an upper cartouche (without a frame) that contains the title of the book and the name and the titles of the author, and a half-circle just below the cartouche which has the rest of the author’s name. At the lower end of the folio, there is a cartouche which contains an ex-libris which reads “bi-rasm al-janāb al-maqarrī aʿazzahu allāh”. There is a red line connects the half circle with the lower cartouche which divides the paper into two parts, and there is a small golden medallion on each side of it. Below the lower cartouche, it is written in gold “bi-rasm sayyīdī Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz aʿazzahu allāh” f.1a. Catch-title is written on the edges of the manuscript.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership note on (f.84b) reads “ bi-rasm Khazānat sayyīdī Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-maqarrī”. Stamp of most probably the library of Sultan Ahmet (f.1b). TKSM stamp on f.1a. There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 247”.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Inconsistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. (different degrees of) red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs. Some titles are rubricated (or dotted) in green.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Some folios are darker
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0874IbnTaghribirdi.MawridLatafa
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 3036
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 3036
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأغلب في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Most probably, it was copied in the 15th century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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