Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ms. 19120 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)

Special Collections

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Qaṭf al-azhār min al-khiṭaṭ wa-al-āthār by Ibn Abī al-Surūr, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1596 or 7-1676 or 7

Summar of al-Mawāʻiẓ wa-al-iʻtibār fī dhikr al-khiṭaṭ wa-al-āthār المواعظ والإعتبار في ذكر الخطط والآثار ) by Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī, 1364-1442

Autograph with a reading note by the author's father

Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اطلع شمس السرور من افلاك السما ... المحمدية ... وبعد فيقول ... ابو السرور بن محمد ... اني لما طالعت كتاب الخطط والاثار لحافظ عصره ... تقي الدين احمد بن علي ... المقريزي
Colophon: تم الكتاب المختصر المسمى بقطف الازهار من الخطط والآر...وکان الفراغ من کتابته یوم السبت سبع و العشرین من شهر ربیع الاول سنه تسع وخمسین والف

Language(s): Arabic

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 168 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 21 × 15.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 18 × 15.5 cm.

Layout

Hand(s)

Neat naskhi hand

History

Origin: 1057 AH; 1647 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by R.S. Greenshields.

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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