Title
al-Khabar ʿan al-Bashar
الخبر عن البشر
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Volume 2; Folios 198 (+vi); Number of lines per page 27 ; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
الجزء الثاني; صفحات (+6) 198; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 270 سم;عرض الصفحة 185 سم
- Volume
2
- Lines
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 185 mm
- Text Area
205x130 mm (the folios f.1b, f.2a, f.197b, f.198a are framed by golden and blue lines)
- Number of folios
Folios 198 (+vi)
- Binding
Brown leather with full-cover decoration executed with small tool (decorated turanj, pendants, frame, and corner-pieces in the shape of flowers painted in gold) and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside covers are brown soft leather decorated by geometrical shapes. The doublure is attached to the first folio of the codex. The spine is torn-out.
Manuscript description
Margins contain: several commentary notes, correction notes, and highlighting the topics discussed throughout the manuscript. The folio f.2a has well-illuminated titelpiece executed in gold, green, luminous orange, red, and blue (mix of vegetal and geometric shapes) which has the title of the book written on the upper part, and the author’s name written on the lower part. The Kurrās number is written on the upper left side of the recto folios (quinion gathering). There an invocation against bookworms, and an index of the topics on two unnumbered folios at the beginning of the codex The catch-title is written on the edges of the manuscript.
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of Muḥammad Aḥmad ʾĪnāl al-ʿAlāʾī al-Dawadār on f.1a. An ownership stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a. Tughra of Sultan Sulaymān on an unnumbered folio at the beginning of the codex and on f.198a. There is also a central rosette in it which contains the following ex-libris inscription “برسم خزانة الجناب العالي المحبي محب الدين محمد بن الجناب العالي المرحوم الشهابي أحمد بن اينال العلاي الداوادار الحنفي”. The folio f.197b also has an ex-libris inscription which reads “ كتب برسم الجناب العالي الناصري سيدي محمد بن الجناب المرحوم الشهابي سيدي أحمد بن المرحوم السيفي اينال العلاي الداوادار الحنفي عامله الله و والديه و المسلمين بلطفه الخفي انه على ذلك قدير و بالاجابة جدير.
- Colophon
Unnamed colophon dated 15 Dhu al-Ḥijja 892 AH (f.198a)
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords.
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.KhabarCanBashar
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Istanbul Turkey) A. 2926/2 - مكتبة طوب قابي سراي - السلطان أحمد (اسطنبول تركيا) أ.2926/2-
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2926/2
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 147?”.
Genre
Genealogy
Historiography
Universal History
Historiography
Universal History
Date
و وافق الفراغ في ثاني عشر ذو الحجة الحرام سنة اثنين و تسعين و ثماني ماية (892 هجرية)
1487 CE/892 AH
Language
Arabic
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