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 2; Folios 243; Number of lines per page 29; Leaf height 273 mm; Leaf width ? mm
الجزء الثاني; صفحات 243; عدد السطور في الصفحة 29; طول الصفحة 273 ملم; عرض الصفحة ؟ ملم
- Volume
2
- Lines
29
- Dimensions
Leaf height 273 mm; Leaf width ? mm
- Text Area
195x130 mm.
- Number of folios
243
- Binding
No info
Manuscript description
Info obtained from the Library of Fatih's catalog, the Sulaymaniyya's database (on-site), and a digitized colored copy of the manuscript. The folio f.1a has an illuminated rectangular panel executed in gold, green, brown, and blue which has an upper cartouche that contains the title of the book, four corner pieces, and a central rosette that contains the author’s name. There is a golden medallion next to the upper left side of the rectangular panel. Margins contain some correction notes. There is a saying attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib on the first folio in the codex (f.ib)
- Ownership Statement
Reading note of ʿAbd al- ʿAzīz? Muḥammad b. Muḥammad (…) (…) al-Anṣārī in 959 AH (عبد العزيز؟ محمد بن محمد ...الأنصاري) (f.1a). Unclear ownership statement of the copyist Muḥamad (…) al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī (محمد ...القرشي الهاشمي) f.1a. Waqf statement of the library of the Sultan Maḥmūd Khān (السلطان محمود خان) written by Muṣṭafā Darwīsh (مصطفى درويش) the inspector of the endowments of the Holy Shrines (المفتش بأوقاف الحرمين) f.1a. Two stamps of the Sultan Maḥmūd Khān (السلطان محمود خان) and Muṣṭafā Darwīsh (مصطفى درويش) on f.1a.
- Colophon
There is (what seems like a) colophon on (f.243b) in 908 AH.
- Completeness
Complete
- Catchwords
Consistent use of catchwords
- Script
- Style
Naskh script
- Ink
Black ink. Red rubrication and overlining, and red inverted commas around poetry hemistichs.
- Writing material
- Material
No info
- Color
- Bibliographic Info
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.Suluk
Collection and Call number
Sulaymānīya Library (Istanbul - Turkey) (Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi) - Fatih Collection 4377
- Location
Sulaymānīya Library (Istanbul - Turkey) - Fatih Collection
- Current classmark
04377
- Alternate Classmark
4378 (in Indo-Arabic numbers)
Genre
Annalistic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
Copied in/before 1502-1503 CE/ 908 AH?
نسخت في/قبل سنة 908 هجرية
Language
Arabic
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