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Excerpts, notes and preliminary studies for Kahle’s "Die Schätze der Fatimiden"

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Title
Excerpts, notes and preliminary studies for Kahle’s "Die Schätze der Fatimiden"
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Description

Excerpts, notes and preliminary studies for Paul Kahle’s “Die Schätze der Fatimiden”. The article concerns a few passages of al-Maqrīzī’s «Ḫiṭaṭ», who, writing in the 15th century, reports that the Fāṭimid caliph al-Mustansir (1036-94.) possessed entire rooms full of porcelain. In particular, the file contains numerous parts of al-Maqrīzī’s «Ḫiṭaṭ» and other Mamluk historians translated by Kahle. A number of these are entitled as follows: - al-Maqrīzī, «Ḫiṭaṭ», vol. 1, 251: without title; - al-Maqrīzī, «Ḫiṭaṭ», vol. 1, p. 408 f.: “Die Schatzkammer der Bücher”; - al-Maqrīzī, «Ḫiṭaṭ», vol. 1, pp. 414-416: “Die Schatzhäuser der Edelsteine und der - Wohlgerüche und der Seltenheiten”; - al-Maqrīzī, «Ḫiṭaṭ», vol. 1, pp. 414 f.: “Die Schatzhäuser der Edelsteine, und der Spezereien und der Kleinodien”; - al-Maqrīzī, «Ḫiṭaṭ», vol. 1, pp. 414-416: “Edelsteinkapitel. Die Schatzhäuser der Edelsteine und der Wohlgerüche und der Seltenheiten”; - al-Maqrīzī, «Ḫiṭaṭ», vol. 1, p. 414 f.: Transcription of the Arabic text (from «Ḫazāʼin al-ǧawhar wa-al-ṭayyib wa-al-ṭarāʼif»); - al-Maqrīzī, «Ḫiṭaṭ», vol. 2, pp. 253: without title; - Qalqašandī, vol. 3, p. 472: without title; - Quatremère, vol. 1, p. 150: without title; - various passages in translations without titles and incomplete versions of Paul Kahle’s “Die Schätze der Fatimiden”.

Publication notes

Publication notes
Paul Kahle, “Die Schätze der Fatimiden”, in: «Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft», 89 (1935), pp. 329-362.

Languages

German

Arabic

Medium

paper

Archivistic typology and Extent

Extent
164
Archivistic typology
leaf/leaves

Dimensions in mm

Height
297(255)
Width
207

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