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
الجزء الخامس; صفحات (+2) 183; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 183 ملم
Volume 5; Folios 183 (+ii); Number of lines per page 27 ; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 183 mm
- Volume
5
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 183 mm
- Text Area
205x130 mm (the folios f.1b, f.2a, f.182b, and f.183a are framed by golden and blue lines).
- Number of folios
Folios 183 (+ii)
- 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 title is written on the spine in gold.
Manuscript description
Margins contain: very few commentary and correction notes, and (sometimes) highlighting the topics discussed throughout the manuscript. The Kurrās number is written in the upper left side of the recto folios (quinion gathering). The folio f.1a 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. There is an invocation against bookworms on an unnumbered folio at the beginning of the codex. The catch-title is written on the edges of the manuscript.
- Ownership Statement
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.1a,f.183a. Ownership statement of Muḥammad Aḥmad ʾĪnāl al-ʿAlāʾī al-Dawadār on f.1a. 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
- Colophon
No colophon
- 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 (which are slightly trimmed).
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.KhabarCanBashar
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Istanbul Turkey) A. 2926/5 - مكتبة طوب قابي سراي - السلطان أحمد (اسطنبول تركيا) أ.2926/5
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2926/5
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript “Tārīkh 147? on an unnumbered folio at the beginning of the codex
Genre
Genealogy
Historiography
Universal History
Historiography
Universal History
Date
Most probably it was copied during the fifteenth century (CE)
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Language
Arabic
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