Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 401q

Metadata

DS ID:

DS13590

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 401q

Title:

Kitāb-i Ikhtiyārāt-i Badīʻī /

Author:

Anṣārī Shīrāzī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn, approximately 1329-1403 or 1404 / انصارى شىرازى، على بن حسىن، approximately 1329-1403 or 1404

ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Anṣārī Shīrāzī WIKIDATA

Date:

1798

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 185 leaves : paper ; 313 x 195 (270 x 136) mm. bound to 320 x 206 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
On front cover: Label reading "396" in Arabic script.
Ms. is erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous numbering.
Dedicated to the princess Badīʻ al-Jamāl (Rieu, II, 469), hence the title, although the dedication appears to be missing from this copy.
Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on unglazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Light staining and smudging. Insert between fol. 128-129, which is a sheet of blue laid paper containing notes and extracts from another ms.
Origin: Copy completed 1 Rabīʻ II 1213 H. [12 September 1798] (fol. 180a).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Persian

Medicine, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9967144203506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University