Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 349

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DS ID:

DS13659

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 349

Title:

Kitāb-i ʻAjāʾib-i makhlūqāt

Place:

Iṣfahān

Isfahan TGN

Date:

1921

twentieth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 147 leaves : paper, ill. ; 218 x 175 (140 x 110) mm. bound to 225 x 180 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from end of text (written with tāʾ marbūtah).
Physical description: 11 lines per page ; written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink. Arabic written in naskh. From fol. 50b on: written in nastaʻlīq in purple ink. Wove paper with embossed seal with inscription in Cyrillic on a few leaves. Annotations in English on the margins of the first leaves. Picture representing a young man placed at the end of the copy.
56 illustrations in watercolor representing the signs of the Zodiac, demons linked to these signs, constellations, birth of stars, and archangels such as Mikāʾīl and Jibrāʾīl.
Origin: According to note on fol. 1a, copied in Iṣfahān, Shaʻbān 1324 H. [Sept.-Oct. 1906] by ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nāʾinī(?) al-Muṣāḥib. At the end of several texts accompanying the illustrations is the name Raṣṣād(?) B̄āshī, son of the late Jaʻfar, with dates ranging from 1330 to 1339 H. [1911 to 1921].

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Persian

Astrology, Iranian

Astrology, Arab

Constellations

Curiosities and wonders

Monsters

Islamic magic

Talismans

Zodiac

Archangels

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955757973506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/064f7caf-0663-46d4-8566-974c37b9d259/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University