Item Summary

A chronicle of Cairo during the French occupation from 1213-1216 [1798-1801] and during the decline of their power in Egypt.

Descriptive Information

Title
مظهر التقديس بذهاب دولة الفرنسيس / للجبرتي.
Transliterated Title
Maẓhar al-taqdīs bi-dhahāb dawlat al-Faransīs / lil-Jabartī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 187H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckd17d3642
Publisher
[18--]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
219, (1) leaves : paper ; 227 x 160 (170 x 99) mm. bound to 220 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 1058.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 153.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 613.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 571.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 219 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-22 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة المبارکة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد کاتبها الفقير الى مولاه القوي عبد الکريم احمد الملوي امام زاوية القطب الکبير سيدي احمد الدردير ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما امين تم
Incipit: بسم الله ... حمدا لمن جعل کلمة الذين کفروا السفلى
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Stamped red mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Flap missing. Quires do not appear to have ever been sewn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
450

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8b7fcabe-5616-432d-8a6e-57a33839a481/manifest