Title
Ittiʿāẓ al-Ḥunafāʾ bi-Akhbār al-Aʾimmah al-Fāṭimīyīn al-Khulafāʾ
اتعاظ الحنفاء بأخبار الأئمة الفاطميين الخلفاء
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Volume 1; Folios 169 (+i) : Number of lines per page 25 ; Leaf height 265 mm; Leaf width 177 mm
الجزء الأول; صفحات 169 (+1); عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; طول الصفحة 265 ملم; عرض الصفحة 177 ملم
- Volume
1
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 265 mm; Leaf width 177 mm
- Text Area
190x135 mm
- Number of folios
169 (+i)
- Binding
Dark brown with full-cover decoration executed by small tools (decorated medallion, pendants, frame decorated with vegetal shapes, and corner-pieces painted in gold and decorated by crimson vegetal shapes), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The inside of the cover thin light-brown leather decorated by vegetal shapes, and part of it is glued to the first and last flyleaves by glued white papers.
Manuscript description
Almost clean margins which have: few correction notes and several commentary notes (which are reproductions of the author’s notes and denoted by the word ''bi-khaṭṭihi'') . Completion of the main text in the margins. Wiped-off reading note f.1a. Ownership statement of Aḥmad b. Tamar al-Jamālī f.3a. There are poetic verses on f.1a which are directed to those who want to borrow the book, and says that books are the love of their owners, and no one lends his own lover. The copyist attached couple of papers between the folios. He noted that he has found attached papers in the very same place in the author’s autograph, and he reproduced the author’s side notes. One of these notes is attached between f.44-f.45 in which al-Maqrizi quotes a story written by Ibn al-Ṣayrafī’s handwriting about the murder of a foreign merchant in 377 AH in a al-Khushyriyya? Qisariyya (which has silk shops). And how the people complained to the ruler that the police arrested several innocent people and that Ṣāḥib al-Shurṭa might be the culprit. And it ends with the ruler punishing Ṣāḥib al-Shurṭa, and writing a letter (i.e. tawqīʿ) about that which became so popular in Egypt that even children used to study it in the Kuttāb. The catch-title of the book is written on the edge of the codex. The last folio is numbered 169 in Arabic numerals and 172 in Indo-Arabic numerals
- Ownership Statement
Ownership statement of Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid (al-Shahīr bi-) Ibn al-Ḥajjār and this in (…) f.1a. There is a stamp Sultan Sulaymān on f.1a and f.316a. An ownership stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
Colophon of Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-(…) al-Azharī al-Shāfiʿī [the missing name might be al-Buḥayrī as we have encountered his full name in several other manuscripts] in 884 AH.
- Completeness
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Rubrication in red (except the first folio where titles are rubricated in gold), and red dots around poetry hemistichs. Sometimes, red dots were used to denote the end of sentences or sajʿ.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.ItticazHunafa
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Istanbul Turkey) A. 3013 - مكتبة طوب قابي سراي - السلطان أحمد (اسطنبول تركيا) أ.3013-
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum (Istanbul - Turkey) - Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 3013
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 224”
Genre
Dynastic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
نسخت على الأرجح في القرن الخامس عشر أو السادس عشر الميلادي
Most probably it was copied between in the 15th or 16th century (CE)
Language
Arabic
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