Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1785

Metadata

DS ID:

DS13839

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1785

Title:

Kitāb-i ʻumdah

Author:

Bukhārī, ʻAlī Shāh ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century / بخارى، على شاه بن محمد، active 13th century

ʻAlī Shāh ibn Muḥammad Bukhārī WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1750 and 1783?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 166 leaves : paper ; 217 x 129 (165 x 83) mm. bound to 220 x 132 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
On back cover: Label reading "25" in Western script.
On wrapper: 25 Saqmani [?].
Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 1-4, 38-39, 174 detached. Lacunae after fol. 91, 108. Leaves pressed between fol. 121-122. Extensive insect damage. Incomplete at end.
On fol. 1a, owner's stamps dated 1198 H [1783 or 4], 1211 H [1796 or 7]. On fol. 15b, 108b, stamp of Sayyid Muḥammad Khān Bahādur, dated 1261 H [1845].

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Persian

Astrology, Arab

Astronomy, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9972581633506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University