Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 127W-129W

Metadata

DS ID:

DS13139

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 127W-129W

Title:

Māʾidah-ʾi pur s̲imār tarjamah-ʾi Nuzul al-abrār ... [etc.

Date:

between 1837 and 1863

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 149 leaves : paper ; 252 x 152 (183-192 x 92-101) mm bound to 262 x 159 mm

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
Title from text 1.
Physical description: 11-13 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Appendix to text 1 (leaves 102-113) is on different paper by a different hand and is a later addition inserted after text 1. Leaves 72, 125 detached. Insect damage and tears. Ink is acidic and has caused some paper degradation.
Origin: The appendix for text 1 is dated the 10th night from the end of Rabīʻ I 1280 H [i.e. 20 Rabīʻ I 1280 = 4 September 1863], by Sayyid Aḥmad Ḥasan Mawdūdī (leaf 112b). Remaining texts completed earlier.
Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Persian

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Imams (Shiites)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9976440163506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University