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; Folios 357 (+iv); Number of lines per page 25; Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 176 mm
الجزء; صفحات (+4) 357; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 268 ملم; عرض الصفحة 176 ملم
- Volume
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 268 mm; Leaf width 176 mm
- Text Area
185x120 mm.
- Number of folios
357 (+iv)
- Binding
Brown leather non-decorated (only has a golden frame), and a flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the cover is decorated with blue background and floral theme, and attached to the first folio of the codex which is thick and has the same decoration. The Catch-title is written on the edges of the work.
Manuscript description
Very extensive use of the margins contain: Several and consistent commentary notes which relates to the commenter’s own time, and announcements of the topics discussed in the main text (marked with the word maṭlab). Sometimes, the sentences in the main text are completed in the margins. The mistara is clear in the entire manuscript. The folio f.1a has a short biography of the author. The paragraphs in the last two folios are written in descending triangle form, and several poetry verses in blue. Indo-Arab numbering
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of al-Muṣṭafā Muḥib al-Dīn (f.1a) and there are several reading notes, comments, and notes about reviewing the main text. Two unclear ownership stamps (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a and on an added flyleaf at the beginning of the work. Old TKSM (in Arabic) stamp on an added flyleaf at the beginning of the work.
- Colophon
Colophon of ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Ḥasan b. Zayn al-Dīn Ḥaḍar? b. (…) b. Muhāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Qurashī (nasaban) al-Mālikī (madhhaban)(al-Ranbī?) (mawlidan) al-Ḥāyrkī (mawṭinan) in 22 Dhu al-Qiʽda 950 AH.
و كان الفراغ من تعليقها يوم الاثنين المبارك ثاني عشرين ذي القعدة الحرام (حام حادي عشرين؟) من سنة خمسين و تسعماية
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink with red and blue rubrication and overlining . Red and blue dots around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers (The flyleaves are watermarked (three crescent).)
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Suluk
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - H. 1431
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
H. 1431
- Alternate Classmark
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
و كان الفراغ من تعليقها يوم الاثنين المبارك ثاني عشرين ذي القعدة الحرام (حام حادي عشرين؟) من سنة خمسين و تسعماية (950 هجرية)
1544 CE / 950 AH
Language
Arabic
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