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
الجزء الثالث; عدد السطور في الصفحة 25; صفحات 316; طول الصفحة 275 ملم:عرض الصفحة 182 ملم
Volume 3; Folios 316; Number of lines per page 25; Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 182 mm
- Volume
3
- Lines
25
- Dimensions
Leaf height 275 mm; Leaf width 182 mm
- Text Area
190x120 mm.
- Number of folios
316
- Binding
Dark brown with full-cover decoration executed by small tools (decorated turanj, pendants, frame decorated with geometric shapes, and corner-pieces), and decorated envelope flap tucked under the upper cover. The fore-edge cover is decorated by three sun-like shapes within three golden rectangular. The inside of the cover green textile which is connected to the first flyleaf by a pink glued paper, and the last flyleaf by a glued green paper.
Manuscript description
The folio f.1a has a well-illuminated titelpiece executed in gold, green, and blue which has the title of the book written on the upper cartouche, and a central rosette which contains the author’s name. And there is a medallion to the upper-left of the decorated rectangular panel. Clean margins. The mistara is clear all over the text. The papers are harmed by bookworms but this did not affect the main text. The main text ends on f.312b while f.313a-f.316a contain additional information which the copyist found written by the hand writing of the author about: Medical advices for various sicknesses , treating the head (i.e. cooling it down), why the teachers are not widely respected, the prohibition of begging, the meaning of laylat al-Qadr, advise for fasting, a prayer which people should say when they see the crescent, comment about how two poetic verses of Layla al-Ikhlīliyya should be read, a hadith which suggest that the end of time would happen after the people starts to (over)decorate the mosques, a note about how virtuous souls should keep praying to god “i.e. Dhikr” , how a woman during her pregnancy would figure out whether the child is a boy or a girl, and several poetic verses. The catch-title of the book is written on the edge of the codex
- Ownership Statement
There are stamps Sultan Sulaymān’s library on f.1a and f.316a. There is a stamp of the library of Sultan Ahmet III (f.1a). TKSM stamp on f.1a.
- Colophon
No colophon
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Rubrication in red. Inverted commas and/or three 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. 2947/3
- Location
Topkapi Palace Museum- Sultan Ahmet III
- Current classmark
A. 2947/3
- 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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