Title
al-Sulūk li-Maʿrifat Duwal al-Mulūk
السلوك لمعرفة دول الملوك
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Volume 4; Folios 250 (+vi); Number of lines per page 27; Leaf height 265 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
الجزء الرابع; صفحات (+2) 250; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; طول الصفحة 265 ملم; عرض الصفحة 180 ملم
- Volume
4
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 265 mm; Leaf width 180 mm
- Text Area
215x130 mm.
- Number of folios
250 (+vi)
- Binding
Crimson leather with a full-cover themed decoration (stamped turanj and two pendants, and stamped center-pieces painted in gold with vegetal themed crimson decoration) , and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the covers are crimson leather and stamped with a turanj as well.
Manuscript description
The folio f.1a has an illuminated rectangular panel executed in gold, brown, green, light-blue, luminous orange, and dark blue which has an upper cartouche that contains the title of the book, and a central rosette (surrounded by four center-pieces) which contains the author’s name. There is roundel to the left of the titelpiece, and light-blue and gold decoration above it. Margins contain: few correction notes; few commentary notes, and announcements of the topics discussed in the main text. Sometimes, the sentences in the main text are completed in the margins. The name Ḥasan Pasha is written on an unnumbered folio at the beginning of the codex.
- Ownership Statement
Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon but there is a note which says that this manuscript was reviewed and compared to the author’s autograph f.250b.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red rubrication and overlining. Red dots and inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
Few papers are darker and the words are not clear in them probably due to the effect of metallic ink
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Suluk
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2928/4
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2928/4
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript “Tārīkh 149?” is written on an unnumbered folio at the beginning of the codex.
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت في القرن الخامس عشر الميلادي
Copied in the 15th century CE
Language
Arabic
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