Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3715Y
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS13652
- Shelfmark:
- Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3715Y
- Title:
- Ẓafarnāmah /
- Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, -1454 / شرف الدين علي يزدي
- Date:
- 1482
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 501, i leaves : paper ; 247 x 173 (182 x 118) mm. bound to 247 x 180 mm.
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 500b).
Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two gold rules outlined in black, with a blue outline. Dark cream laid paper, glossy, hardly translucid. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of the first leaf with text. Inscriptions on fol. 501a-b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals...
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece executed in gold, blue, and colors, on fol. 2b.
Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Spine label (vertical; partly wanting) with title in French: "Aly Al-Yezdy Histoire de Tamerlan".
Three pieces of paper with printed text on the pastedown of the upper cover, the first with a notice in French describing the manuscript under no. 320 ; the second with the name "M. Silvestre de sacy" and inscriptions in pencil ; the third bearing the following text: "Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco 70, Avenue des Champs-Elysées".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Khalīl Allāh ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Shamītī(?), Thursday 10 Jumādá al-Awwal 887 [June 27, 1482] (fol. 500b, in Arabic).
Ownership statement in the name of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as Dhahanī (dated 1112 H. [1700 or 1701]) and impressions of two seals on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955211173506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e56c4573-e8ca-4224-9cbe-2cb48766ff6d/manifest
- Holding Institution:
