Title
al-Mawāʿiẓ wa-l-Iʿtibār fī Dhikr al-Khiṭaṭ wa-l-Āthār
المواعظ والاعتبار بذكر الخطط والآثار
Alternative title
Type
manuscript
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Physical description
Volume 1; Folios 237 (+v); Number of lines per page 27; Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 175 mm
الجزء الأول; عدد السطور في الصفحة 27; صفحات (+5 ) 237; طول الصفحة 270 ملم; عرض الصفحة 175 ملم
- Volume
1
- Lines
27
- Dimensions
Leaf height 270 mm; Leaf width 175 mm
- Text Area
195x130 mm.
- Number of folios
237 (+v)
- 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 spine seems newer and light-brown. The inside of the cover thin light-brown leather decorated by vegetal shapes, and connected to the first and last flyleaves by glued white papers.
Manuscript description
Almost clean margins which have: few correction notes. Completion of the main text in the margins. The mistara is clear all over the text. The papers are harmed by bookworms but this did not affect the main text. The catch-title of the book is written on the edge of the codex.
- Ownership Statement
There is a stamp of “Dāwūd b. Amīr Ramaḍān ( الملك الواثق بالديار؟), and another unclear stamp on f.1b. (hexagonal shaped). Stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1b). TKSM stamp on f.1a
- Colophon
No Colophon.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Rubrication in red. Inverted commas and red dots around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
Oriental Papers
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Mawaciz
Collection and Call number
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III (Sultanahmet Kütüphanesi) - A. 2947/1
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2947/1
- Alternate Classmark
There is an old call number of the manuscript on f.1a “Tārīkh 158”.
Genre
Description of Towns
Historiography
Topography
Historiography
Topography
Date
نسخت بين القرنين الخامس عشر و السادس عشر ميلادية
Most probably it was copied in the 15th or the 16th centuries (CE)
Language
Arabic
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