Wellesley College, MS Arabic 3

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12773

Shelfmark:

MS Arabic 3

Title:

Arabic manuscript about a waqf, from the Mamluk Sultanate, Cairo, Egypt

Author:

Qāʼit Bāy, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, -1496 / قايتباي، سلطان مصر وسوريا،، -1496

Qaitbay WIKIDATA

Place:

Cairo, Egypt

Cairo TGN

Date:

approximately 1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume (various pagings) : paper ; 21.5 x 16 cm

Note:

Manuscript codex, incomplete.
Black ink on paper, rubricated in red, blue, brown, and gold.
15 leaves, paginated 3-14, 17-20, [21-22], 23-33, [34]. First leaf, last leaves, and one in the middle wanting.
Purchased by Curtis Runnels from Bruce Ferrini (d. 2010), Cleveland, Ohio, 1995.

Keyword:

Sources

Manuscripts

Endowments

Waqf

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qāʼit Bāy, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, -1496

Mamelukes

Egypt

History

Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000671684

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/35491/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College