Title
Shifāʾ al-Gharām bi-Akhbār al-Balad al-Ḥarām
شفاء الغرام بأخبار البلد الحرام
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Fāsī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-Ṭayyib Muḥammad b. Shihāb al-Dīn b. al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Makkī al-Mālikī
Physical description
Folios 565 (+XIV); Number of lines per page 32 ; Leaf height 267 mm; Leaf width 182 mm
565 (+14) صفحات عدد السطور في الصفحة 32 عرض الصفحة 18.2 سم، طول الصفحة 26.7 سم
- Volume
- Lines
32
- Dimensions
Leaf height 267 mm; Leaf width 182 mm
- Text Area
185x120 mm (each folio of the manuscript is framed by golden rectangular)
- Number of folios
565 (+XIV)
- Binding
decorated brown leather with full-cover decoration of drawn golden vegetal shapes inside a golden frame, and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the covers are decorated crimson (leather-like) paper (with vegetal shapes) and attached to the first and last folios of the manuscript (which are of the same type of paper in which one side of it is decorated by the crimson vegetal shapes).
Manuscript description
The folio f.1b has quite unique and well-illuminated headpiece of vegetal shapes (in blue, green, and pink) drawn on a golden background. The margins of the folios f.1b and f.2a are decorated with golden vegetal shapes. Margins contain several commentary notes (which the copyist has reproduced from earlier work?). The folios were renumbered (and the old numbers were scratched-out). The text in f.564a,b-f.565a has information about when the dates in which this book was written. The folios before the work are structured to write an index in them but they are totally empty (i.e. golden rectangular divided into small squares). There are two old call numbers on the first flyleaf (365 and 445?). The edges of the manuscript are decorated by golden vegetal shapes, and the number 426 is written on one side of the edges.
- Ownership Statement
Unclear ownership stamp (f.1a). Old TKSM stamp on a flyleaf which also contains the title. TKSM stamp on f.a. Ownership stamp (which is repeated throughout the manuscript) of Ḥikmat-Allah b. ʿIṣamat-Allah al-Ḥusaynī in (1276?). There is a stamp of “Medene” on the first flyleaf and TKSM stamp.
- Colophon
Colophon of Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Jīzī al-Azharī al-Shāfiʿī (f.565a).
- Completeness
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining. Poetry verses are written into golden rectangular and the hemstiches of the verses are separated by golden lines.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Papers: light slightly brown and glazed papers (which are quiet common for the manuscripts Written in al-Madīna al-Munawwara and the Arabian peninsula in general)
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0832AbuTayyibFasi.ShifaGharam
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Istanbul Turkey) M. 514- مكتبة طوب قابي سراي - السلطان أحمد (اسطنبول تركيا) م.514-
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
M. 514
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Historiography
History of Mecca
Topography
History of Mecca
Topography
Date
نسخت بين القرنين الخامس عشر و التاسع عشر الميلاديين
Most probably it was copied between the 15th-19th centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
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