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زبدة كشف الممالك وبيان الطرق والمسالك / تصنيف العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى خليل بن شاهين الظاهري.
Zubdat Kashf al-mamālik wa-bayān al-ṭuruq wa-al-masāli / taṣnīf al-ʻAbd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī.
1512
An abridgment in twelve chapters (bāb, see table of contents in the preamble, fol. 2b-4b) of Kashf al-Mamālik wa-bayān al-ṭuruq wa-al-masālik by the author, about the geography and history of the Mamlūk Sultans of Egypt.
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An abridgment in twelve chapters (bāb, see table of contents in the preamble, fol. 2b-4b) of Kashf al-Mamālik wa-bayān al-ṭuruq wa-al-masālik by the author, about the geography and history of the Mamlūk Sultans of Egypt.
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- Title
- زبدة كشف الممالك وبيان الطرق والمسالك / تصنيف العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى خليل بن شاهين الظاهري.
- Transliterated Title
- Zubdat Kashf al-mamālik wa-bayān al-ṭuruq wa-al-masāli / taṣnīf al-ʻAbd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 263H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcb8515z625
- Publisher
- [1512]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1512
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 120 leaves : paper ; 214 x 145 (145 x 105) mm bound to 215 x 155 mm
- Provenance
- Three ownership statements on fol. (i) a, in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, ʻAbd al-ʻAlīm? Afandī, and Muṣṭafá Ibn al-Ḥājj Abī Bakr. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source Acquisition
- Purchase ; Brill; 1900.
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 752
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 135 (6/1)
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 165 (6/1)
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble (fol. 2b, l. 10).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 120 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 15 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; some leaves are missing (see between fol. 12 and 13 and between fol. 55 and 56).
- Origin: Copy completed on 12 Shawwāl 917 (colophon, fol. 120a).
- Incipit: الحمد لله رافع خلقه فوق بعض درجات ومفضّل من اختاره ... وبعد فان قلم القدر اذا جري في القدم للعبد بالتوفيق.
- Explicit: ما كان ذلك كله مما يفي بمبيت اول ليلة في قبره تم الكتاب.
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible) for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central roundel with a geometrical star-shaped motif and an elaborate outer frame made of fillets and running patterns. Disbound.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 250
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/599a8e43-df0e-43f2-8587-6c1c06d68043/manifest